Representing Communities (eBook)

Ruth Sanz Sabido is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K. 

Chapter 1: Introduction – Communities, Discourse and Contexts; Ruth Sanz Sabido.- PART I: Challenging the System Chapter 2: Constructing community: Notes on a slippery concept;  Rinella Cere.- Chapter 3: Transforming the politics of gender and voice: Strategies of expertise and experience; Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn.- Chapter 4: Populism, ‘community’ and political culture: The revenge of the liberal elite; Stuart Price.- Chapter 5: Discursive colonialism: German settler communities, their media and infrastructure in Africa, 1898-1914; Corinna Schäfer.- PART II: Representing Communities, Perpetuating Inequality Chapter 6: Legitimising political homophobia: Sexual minorities and Russian Television News; Anna Khlusova.- Chapter 7: Interrogating representations and misrepresentations of violence: The contested identities of Generation 1.5 Somalis in Melbourne; Elizabeth Lakey.- Chapter 8: News coverage of a women’s hunger strike against ‘chauvinist violence’; Ruth Sanz Sabido.- Chapter 9: Egresses: Countering stereotypes of blackness and disability through Horrorcore and Krip Hop; Mikko Koivisto.- PART III: Communities and their Contexts Chapter 10: New Orleans, food, race and gender on television: Frank’s Place and Treme; Robin Roberts.- Chapter 11: Partiality, patriotism and propaganda: Aggregating local news sources in Ukraine; Richard Pendry.-Chapter 12: Constructing ‘ordinary people’ on British television: Notes on the politics of representation; Rosalind Brunt.