Whereas in reality the cause of the current inflation is structural: it is 40 years of neoliberal economic policy which has sucked hundreds of billions, probably trillions of dollars out of the UK economy over those 40 years and into tax havens, benefitting the global elite (and many non-Bri...
While invaluable, these studies are primarily media-centric and focused on small-scale investigations, meaning they regularly ignore the social totality in which sourcing is inevitably embedded. Such studies hence also pay too little attention to the external actors that provide 'information subsidies' ...
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Our President, Grace Yukich, and Program Chair, Andrea Henderson, have promised to make this year’s meeting unique in terms of both its intellectual content and social gatherings. We can look forward to receptions, unique thematic sessions, the Presidential address, and our Furfey lecture with ...
Social Science Electronic PublishingNielsen RK (2017) Digital news as forms of knowledge: a new chapter in the sociology of knowledge. P J. Boczkowski and C. W. Anderson (eds) Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age, p.91....
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In fact, most of the information presented in the articles was obtained from the Border Patrol, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and politicians. We conclude that news media coverage of undocumented Mexican immigration was not balanced and that the American public accepted the biased ...
my worldview,” Lo says. “There’s so many technological or scientific advancements that people could work on, but one main preoccupation that sociologists consider is how those affect people in the day-to-day, and it’s important to have people focused on the ethics” of those innovati...
I am interested broadly in the relationship between social differences and individual differences, and between social advantage and embodied advantage. This includes work differences in physical health, cognitive functioning, health behaviors, and the r