The poverty of television: the mediation of suffering in class-divided Philippines

Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. The book aims to contribute to the broader project o...

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Main Author: Ong, Jonathan Corpus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Anthem Press 2018
Series:Anthem global media and communication studies
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Summary:Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. The book aims to contribute to the broader project of de-Westernizing media studies and explore the tension between ethical prescription and anthropological description in the social sciences and humanities
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 215 pages)

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