Recognition and the media
By: Rousiley Maia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781137310422
Subjects: Mass media; Political aspects; Social aspects; Recognition (Philosophy); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "Recognition theory is now an influential approach to the study of identity, social conflict, multiculturalism, distribution, democracy and justice. By aligning the literature on Axel Honneth's theory with that of political communication, this study examines a neglected, but significant topic, namely the interfaces between struggles for recognition and the media. Rousiley Maia, in collaboration with a number of experts, uses empirical research to construct a sophisticated debate on the main controversies in Honneth's work - the morality of recognition, ideological forms of recognition, 'feelings of injustice', problems of claim justification, the notions of non-recognition, misrecognition, and moral evolution. This collection presents a set of intriguing case studies addressing mass communication representations, practices within networked digital media and social change in the media arena. These cases focus on the struggles for recognition of slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients, women exposed to child labor exploitation, deaf individuals, LGBTQs, black women and people with disabilities"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition as a Research Program; title: PART I: MASS MEDIA: A SITE OF STRUGGLE; title: 3. Mass Media Representation, Identity-Building and Social Conflicts: Towards a Recognition-Theoretical Approach; title: 4. The Morality of Recognition: Adolescent Slum-Dwellers Discuss a TV Series Representation of their Lives; title: 5. Recognition and Ideology: Assessing Justice and Injustice in the Case of Child Domestic Labor; title: PART II: STRUGGLE THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; title: 6. Struggles for Recognition in a Digital Era; title: 7. Recognition, Feelings of Injustice and Claim Justification: Deaf People's Storytelling on the Internet; title: 8. Recognition as an Ongoing Struggle: Conflicts Involving Racism and Homophobia in the Networked Media Environment; title: PART III: STRUGGLE, MEDIA AND THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL CHANGE; title: 9. Media, Cultural Change and the Dynamics of Recognition; title: 10. Recognition without Struggles: Leprosy in Brazilian Daily Newspapers; title: 11. Recognition and Moral Progress: Discourses on Disability in the Media; title: 12. Conclusion.