{"product_id":"critical-explorations-of-media-and-inequality-9781666968187","title":"Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality","description":"\u003cb\u003eMedia discourses play a powerful role in shaping public understanding of inequality-yet they often obscure, distort, or individualize its causes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritical Explorations of Media and Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e examines how mainstream media systems reproduce and legitimize unequal social structures by marginalizing, sensationalizing, or blaming those most affected. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this edited collection explores the persistent gaps, tensions, and ideological forces at work in media representations of class, poverty, homelessness, welfare, and immigration across diverse global contexts. Organized around the themes of changing media work practices, authoritative voices, representations, and implications, the chapters interrogate how neoliberalism and shifting journalistic norms continue to shape-and limit-the public conversation on inequality. Through rich empirical analysis and interdisciplinary insight, this volume offers a timely intervention into the politics of media framing and the structural silences that sustain social injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMajka Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in work and employment at the University of Limerick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin J. Power\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of sociology at the University of Limerick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEoin Devereux\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of sociology at the University of Limerick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103868416274,"sku":"9781666968187","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78bb8f9a-b378-49fd-b801-322ca4dd34d3.jpg?v=1773159407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/critical-explorations-of-media-and-inequality-9781666968187","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}