TY - CHAP

T1 - Social Inequalities: Media Coverage and Society Expectations

AU - Berezhnaia, Marina Aleksandrovna

AU - Korkonosenko, Sergey Grigorievich

N1 - Berezhnaia M. A., Korkonosenko S. G. Social inequalities: Media coverage and society expectations. New Horizons in Education and Social Studies. Vol. 1. E. Seda Koc (Ed.). Hooghly, India: Book Publisher International, 2020. P. 25-32. http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/204

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The article deals with the ways of media coverage of financial and ethnic distinctions in society.Analysis is based on the comparative Russian-Swedish research of regional media. The researchrevealed that material divides are mostly covered through several discourses: social policies aimed atelimination of material differences, information on individual solutions for financial problems, massmedia as the helpline for the underprivileged. There are penetrations of material divides issues insome relative topics but media evidently escape conflicts escalation. The audience in Russia findsthe coverage of these issues unsatisfactory as it does not touch the structural material divides. The“disparity” discourse was apparent in discussions on ethnic divides and migration. Media do notpresent ethnic differences as inequalities and escape of mentioning them except urgent grounds;ethnic divides are either built into the overall context of material ones or placed into “us and they”discourse. Being slightly and not systematically articulated in media, material and ethnic diversitiesturn to become real gaps which are impossible to overcome both in mind and reality.

AB - The article deals with the ways of media coverage of financial and ethnic distinctions in society.Analysis is based on the comparative Russian-Swedish research of regional media. The researchrevealed that material divides are mostly covered through several discourses: social policies aimed atelimination of material differences, information on individual solutions for financial problems, massmedia as the helpline for the underprivileged. There are penetrations of material divides issues insome relative topics but media evidently escape conflicts escalation. The audience in Russia findsthe coverage of these issues unsatisfactory as it does not touch the structural material divides. The“disparity” discourse was apparent in discussions on ethnic divides and migration. Media do notpresent ethnic differences as inequalities and escape of mentioning them except urgent grounds;ethnic divides are either built into the overall context of material ones or placed into “us and they”discourse. Being slightly and not systematically articulated in media, material and ethnic diversitiesturn to become real gaps which are impossible to overcome both in mind and reality.

KW - social inequality, regional media, public, dissonance, discourse

KW - Social inequality

KW - regional media

KW - dissonance

KW - public

KW - discourse.

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/413187ec-0a75-306f-97e8-67ea40df6b6d/

U2 - 10.9734/bpi/nhess/v1

DO - 10.9734/bpi/nhess/v1

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-93-90149-68-1

VL - 1

SP - 25

EP - 32

BT - New Horizons in Education and Social Studies

A2 - Seda Koc, E.

PB - Book Publisher International

CY - Hooghly, India

ER -