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1 online resource : illustrations, charts |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the media as messenger; Part I The UK experience; 1 The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis; 2 Media amnesia and the crisis; 3 Austerity, the media and the UK public; 4 The economic recovery on TV news; 5 The 'Geddes Axe': the press and Britain's first austerity drive; Part II Continental perspectives; 6 Covering the Euro crisis: cleavages and convergences; 7 Austerity policies in the European press: a divided Europe? |
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8 Safeguarding the status quo: the press and the emergence of a new left in Greece and Spain9 Race and class in German media representations of the 'Greek crisis'; Part III Journalistic practice and the crisis; 10 Whose economy, whose news?; 11 'Mediamacro': why the news media ignores economic experts; 12 Financial journalists, the financial crisis and the 'crisis' in journalism; 13 Reform in retreat: the media, the banks and the attack on Dodd-Frank; Part IV Social media, social movements and the crisis; 14 Social media and the capitalist crisis |
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15 Narrative mediation of the Occupy movement: a case study of Stockholm and Latvia16 Facebook and the populist right: how populist politicians use social media to reimagine the news in Finland and the UK; 17 #ThisIsACoup: the emergence of an anti-austerity hashtag across Europe's twittersphere; Index |
| Summary |
"The Media and Austerity examines the role of the news media in communicating and critiquing economic and social austerity measures in Europe since 2010. From an array of comparative, historical and interdisciplinary vantage points, this edited collection seeks to understand how and why austerity came to be perceived as the only legitimate policy response to the financial crisis for nearly a decade after it began. Drawing on an international range of contributors with backgrounds in journalism, politics, history and economics, the book presents chapters exploring differing media representations of austerity from UK, US and European perspectives. It also investigates practices in financial journalism and highlights the role of social media in reporting public responses to government austerity measures. They reveal that, without a credible and coherent alternative to austerity from the political opposition, what had been an initial response to the consequences of the financial crisis, became entrenched between 2010 and 2015 in political discourse. The Media and Austerity is a clear and concise introduction for students of journalism, media, politics and finance to the connections between the media, politics and society in relation to the public perception of austerity after the 2008 global financial crash."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2018) |
| Subject |
Financial crises -- Press coverage -- Europe
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in mass media.
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Journalism.
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journalism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) in mass media
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Economics
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Journalism
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Mass media -- Study and teaching
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Politics and government
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Europe
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Basu, Laura, 1981- editor.
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Schifferes, Steve, editor
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Knowles, Sophie, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315178912 |
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1315178915 |
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9781351714785 |
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1351714783 |
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9781351714761 |
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1351714767 |
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