Event overview
Dr Sophie Knowles discusses the role of the media in representing economic inequality and how it has informed public attitudes to poverty, class and welfare.
Dr Knowles will introduce and discuss her recent co-edited book that brings together a range of experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolved historically; how it has been represented and portrayed in the media; and how, in turn, those representations have informed the public’s knowledge of and attitudes towards poverty, class and welfare, and political discourse. Taking a multi-disciplinary, comparative, and historical approach, and using a variety of new and original data sets to inform the research, studies in the book examine the relationship between media and inequality in UK, Western Europe, and USA. In addition to generating new knowledge and research agendas, the book generates suggestions of ways to improve news coverage on this topic and raise the level of the debate, and will improve understanding about economic inequality, as it has evolved, and as it continues to develop in academic, political and media discourses.
Dr Sophie Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism, and Programme Leader on the MSc Digital Journalism, and Director for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Media Department at Middlesex University. She is author of Mediating Financial Crises: Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coalmine? (Peter Lang 2020), co-editor of the multidisciplinary book volumes Media and Austerity (Routledge 2018) and Media and Inequality (Routledge, 2022). Her latest book, under contract, focuses on the mediation of the economy through a feminist lens.
This event is held in partnership between the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy and the Media Forum
Dates & times
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| 26 Jan 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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