Scroungers Moral Panics and Media Myths

Scroungers, spongers, parasites .These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular scapegoat for all manner of social ills, under austerity we''ve seen hostility towards benefit claimants reach new levels of hysteria, with the ''undeserving poor'' blamed for everything from crime to even rising levels of child abuse.While the tabloid press has played its role in fuelling this hysteria, the proliferation of social media has added a disturbing new dimension to this process, spreading and reinforcing scare stories, while normalising the perception of poverty as a form of ''deviancy'' that runs contrary to the neoliberal agenda. Provocative and illuminating, S ungers explores and analyses the ways in which the poor are portrayed both in print and online, placing these attitudes in a wider breakdown of social trust and community cohesion.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: James Morrison
• Editore: Zed Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9781786992130
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-213-0
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Categorie: Soziologie, Armut, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Arbeitslosigkeit, Medienwirtschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Medien-, Unterhaltungs-, Informations- und Kommunikationsindustrie, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Medienwissenschaften, Media Studies, Sociology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Cultural Studies, Sozialwesen und Sozialsysteme, Armut und Prekariat, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, EDUCATION / Higher, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Press & journalism, Poverty & unemployment, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Publishing industry and journalism, Poverty and precarity, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, For higher / tertiary / university education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents