Includes bibliographical references and index.

Framing social and digital divides and digital inequalities : a structuralist, culturalist, and postmodernist theoretical review / Toks Oyedemi -- Theorizing digital divides and digital inequalities / Massimo Ragnadda and Glenn W. Muschert -- North-south "miscommunication" about "sustainable development" and social change : contributions from postcolonial and decolonial theories / Eunice Castro Seixas -- Postcolonial critical discourse analysis / Ruth Sanz Sabido -- Class and gender inequalities in the process of political communication : Canadian illustrations / Debra M. Clarke -- Black anglophone oligarchy in Jamaica : an alliance of media and slate / Nova M. Gordon-Bell -- Media representation of class issues in Turkey : a review on media coverage of work-related rights / A. Fulya Sen and Y. Furkan Sen -- Creating the myth of a better future : technological determinism and reproducing social inequalities / Banu Durdağ̆ -- Digital by default : consequences, casualties and coping strategies / Ilse Mariën, Rob Heyman, Koen Salemink, and Leo Van Audenhove -- From racial capitalism to democratic capitalism : historical perspectives of inequalities and communication technologies in South Africa / Toks Oyedemi -- Reform and vulnerability : parsing out the cyclical relationship of praxis and theory / Kala Ortwein, Sarah Rowe, and Olga Shapovalova.

"Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies of social inequalities in media and communication. The volume is a theoretical exploration of the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality and how these theoretical discourses provide critical understanding of social inequalities in relation to narratives shaped by media and communication experiences. The contributors provide class and gender analyses of media and culture, engage theoretical discourses of inequalities and capitalism in relation to communication technologies, and explore the cyclical relationship of theory and praxis in studying inequalities, media, and communication"--Amazon webpage.