[ecrea] JoC Publishes Special Section on Growing Economic Inequality

International Journal of Communication 
Publishes a Special Section on 
Growing Economic Inequality and Mediated Communication

The International Journal of Communication announces the publication of a
Special Section focused on “Growing Economic Inequality and Mediated
Communication” guest-edited by Paschal Preston and Andrea Grisold.
 Sharp rises in economic inequalities have been one of the most significant
developments in the heartlands of the capitalist system since the 1970s.
Widening income gaps, increasingly uneven distribution of wealth and falling
wage ratios comprise key aspects and indicators of this transformation. But
many analysts also view the rise of populist nationalism and decline in the
public’s trust in established political parties, media and other
institutions as closely linked to the polarized distribution of income and
other material resources.
 After decades of benign neglect, the issues of economic and social
inequalities have re-entered the stage of mainstream political attention in
the core western countries over the past couple of years. This is due, in
part, to the prominent public profile and popularity of books by Thomas
Piketty and Tony Atkinson who have worked on this topic for many years. 
Moreover, the renewed attention to economic and social inequality unfolds
against a background of very slow, partial and highly uneven “recovery”
from the major financial crash in the north-Atlantic region in 2007‒2008.
Sluggish economic growth, declining or stagnant incomes, state policy
regimes oriented toward austerity have followed in many countries and
extreme turbulence in the formal political arena.  This special themed 
section of IJoC engages with two broad, if overlapping,
sets of questions:
 How do the new forms of economic inequality, power and privilege relate to
relevant theories of the news media and prevailing conceptualizations of the
role of the institutions of public communication? How does this knowledge
base serve to help forward-looking analyses of the meaning and implications
of recent trends in economic inequalities?
 What role do the new forms of economic inequality, thus power and 
privilege,
play in the typical narratives of mediated communication today? How does the
“story-telling” take place? How is inequality framed and discussed?
 The seven papers in this themed section are transdisciplinary in scope,
bringing together several leading researchers, based in the communication
studies, journalism and the political economy fields―all engaged in
complementary ways in exploring the relations between media and public
communication institutions on the one hand, and significant economic
inequality trends and related developments on the other.  We invite you 
to read these articles that published on October 25, 2017 in
the International Journal of Communication.  Please log on to
ijoc.orghttp://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc to access these articles.  We look
forward to your feedback!
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    Economic Inequalities and Mediated Communication―An Introduction
Paschal Preston, Dublin City University, Andrea Grisold, Vienna University
of Economics and Business

How Come We Know? The Media Coverage of Economic Inequality
Andrea Grisold, Hendrik Theine, Vienna University of Economics and Business

The Mediation of Hope: Communication Technologies and Inequality in
Perspective
Robin Mansell, London School of Economics

Citizen Detriment: Communications, Inequality and Social Order
Peter Golding, Northumbria University

Contrasting Conceptions, Discourses and Studies of Economic Inequalities
Paschal Preston, Dublin City University, Henry Silke, University of Limerick

Favoring the Elites: Think Tanks and Discourse Coalitions
Núria Almiron, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Economic Inequality in German Quality Press: Framing Concerns About
Inequality and Redistribution Julian Bank, University of Duisburg-Essen
____________________________________________________________
Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Paschal Preston, Andrea Grisold
Guest Editors
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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