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Inequalities are the unwanted companions of media and communication. Traditional analogue mass media were criticized for creating inequalities by being biased, serving hegemonic interests, and accumulating far too much power in the hands of mighty industrial conglomerates. Under the digital regime, most inequalities survived, and new ones occurred. Knowledge gaps transformed into digital divides, news journalism is challenged by social networking sites, and global corporate monopolies outperform national media companies. Algorithmic selection, surveillance, Big Data and the Internet of Things are creating new inequalities which follow traditional patterns of class, gender, wealth and education. This book revisits old and new media and communication inequalities in times of digital transition. It has been written in a collective effort by the members of the Euromedia Research Group.
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DIGITAL MEDIA INEQUALITIES POLICIES AGAINST DIVIDES, DISTRUST AND DISCRIMINATION
NORDICOM
JOSEF TRAPPEL (ed.) 1
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DIGITAL MEDIA INEQUALITIES
DIGITAL MEDIA POLICIES AGAINST DIVIDES, DISTRUST AND DISCRIMINATION
JOSEF TRAPPEL (ed.)
NORDICOM
Digital Media Inequalities Policies against divides, distrust and discrimination Josef Trappel (ed.)
© Editorial matters and selections, the editors; articles, individual contributors; Nordicom 2019
ISBN 978-91-88855-10-7 (print) ISBN 978-91-88855-11-4 (pdf) The publication is also available as open access at www.nordicom.gu.se
Published by: Nordicom University of Gothenburg Box 713 SE 405 30 GÖTEBORG Sweden
Cover by: Per Nilsson Printed by: Ale Tryckteam AB, Bohus, Sweden, 2019
Contents
Preface
7
1. Josef Trappel Inequality, (new) media and communications
9
2. Denis McQuail Equality – an ambiguous value
31
3. Hannu Nieminen Inequality, social trust and the media. Towards citizens’ communication and information rights
43
4. Jeremy Tunstall Scale economies and international communications inequality, 1820-2020
67
5. Stylianos Papathanassopoulos & Ralph Negrine Political communication, digital inequality and populism
79
6. Barbara Thomass Economic inequality, appraisal of the EU and news media
95
7. Péter Bajomi-Lázár Inequality in the media and the “Maslow pyramid” of journalistic needs in Central and Eastern Europe
113
8. Judit Bayer The illusion of pluralism. Regulato