Recognition and the Media [electronic resource] /
Maia, R.author.
This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings together debates on controversial aspects of Honneth's work and a set of intriguing empirical studies including with slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients and women exposed to child labor exploitation.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes on Author and Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition as a Research Program; Part I Mass Media: A Site of Struggle; 2 Mass Media Representation, Identity-Building and Social Conflicts: Towards a Recognition-Theoretical Approach; 3 The Morality of Recognition: Adolescent Slum-Dwellers Discuss a TV Series Representation of Their Lives
4 Recognition and Ideology: Assessing Justice and Injustice in the Case of Child Domestic LaborPart II Struggle Through Social Network Sites; 5 Struggles for Recognition in the Digital Era; 6 Recognition, Feelings of Injustice and Claim Justification: Deaf People's Storytelling on the Internet; 7 Recognition as an Ongoing Struggle: Conflicts Involving Racism and Homophobia in the Networked Media Environment; Part III Struggle, Media and the Dynamics of Political Cultural Change; 8 Media, Social Change, and the Dynamics of Recognition
9 Recognition Without Struggles: The Reporting of Leprosy in Brazilian Daily Newspapers10 Recognition and Moral Progress: Discourses on Disability in the Media; Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings together debates on controversial aspects of Honneth's work and a set of intriguing empirical studies including with slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients and women exposed to child labor exploitation.
Honneth, Axel, 1949-
Sociology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Political science.
Communication.
Social policy.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology, general.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Political Science.
Media Studies.
Social Policy.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.