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Book SynopsisThis companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire populists, to well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers, class is undergoing change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated contributions unpack how media industries, digital technologies, everyday media practicesâand media studies itselfâfeed into and comment upon broader, interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a wide range of topics, such as economic inequality, workplace stratification, the sharing economy, democracy and journalism, globalization, and mobility/migration. Outward-looking, intersectional, and highly contemporary, The Routledge CompanTable of Contents Introduction: Media and Class in the Twenty-first Century. Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Radhika Gajjala Part I: Class and Mass Media Working-class Bodies in Advertising. Matthew P. McAllister and Litzy Galarz Class Hybridity and the Habitus Clivé on American Reality Television. June Deery Migrants Meet Reality Shows: The Class Representation of Non-Koreans in Reality Shows in Korea. Hun-Yul Lee Participation in Reality Television: Entertainment Mobilization in Dance Talent Shows. Annette Hill and Koko Kondo Love, Sex, Money: Gender and Economic Inequality in HIV Edutainment Programming in Kenya. Renée A. Botta Part II: Class in Interactive Digital and Mobile Media Horse Racing, Social Class, and the Spaces of Gambling. Holly Kruse “Keep it Classy”: Grindr, Facebook and Enclaves of Queer Privilege in India. Rohit K. Dasgupta YouTube-based Programming and Saudi Youth: Constructing a New Online Class and Monetizing Strategies. Omar Daoudi Mobile Technology and Class: Australian Family Households, Socioeconomic Status and Techno-literacy. Will Balmford and Larissa Hjorth Hanging Out at Home as a Lifestyle: YouTube Home Tour Vlogs in East Asia. Crystal Abidi Young People, Smartphones, and Invisible Illiteracies: Closing the Potentiality–Actuality Chasm in Mobile Media. Sun Sun Lim and Renae Sze Ming Lo Childhood, Media, and Class in South Asia. Shakuntala Banaji Part III: Labor in Digital/Media Contexts The Roots of Journalistic Perception: A Bourdieusian Approach to Media and Class. Sandra Vera-Zambrano and Matthew Powers The Aspirational Class “Mobility” of Digital Nomads. Erika Polson Technologies of Recognition: The Classificatory Function of Social Media in Mobile Careers. André Jansson The Gig Economy and Class (De)composition. Todd Wolfson Digital Hierarchies of Laboring Subjects. Kaitlyn Wauthier, Alyssa Fisher, and Radhika Gajjala Between “World Class Work” and “Proletarianized Labor”: Digital Labor Imaginaries in the Global South. Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Jason Vincent Cabañes Part IV: Media, Class, and Expressions of Citizenship Class Distinctions in Urban Broadband Initiatives. Germaine Halegoua “Second-class” Access: Homelessness and the Digital Materialization of Class. Justine Humphry Marginality and Social Class in Moroccan Youth Media. Mohamed El Marzouki Reconsidering Mobility: The Competing Logics of Information and Communication Technologies Across Class Differences in the Context of Denver’s Gentrification. Lynn Schofield Clark Class Interplay in Social Activism in Kenya. Job Mwaura Postscript The Vivid Particularities of Class and Media. David Morley

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Book SynopsisAs corporations ramp up workforce globalization and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile places, a new global middle class is emerging. While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics that indicate a larger logic to the way that the increasing mobility of professional career paths is connected to new subjectivities and changing forms of community among a diverse and growing demographic. This book opens up a new field of study, one which pays more attention to middle class mobility while questioning the privileging of mobility more generally.Trade Review«This is an interesting study of current global mobilities, both because of its empirical data and because of its detailed examination of a newly emerged phenomenon. It will have considerable appeal across various academic disciplines and fields in the social sciences.» (European Journal of Communication 32/5 2017)

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Book SynopsisAs corporations ramp up workforce globalization and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile places, a new global middle class is emerging. While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics that indicate a larger logic to the way that the increasing mobility of professional career paths is connected to new subjectivities and changing forms of community among a diverse and growing demographic. This book opens up a new field of study, one which pays more attention to middle class mobility while questioning the privileging of mobility more generally.Trade Review«This is an interesting study of current global mobilities, both because of its empirical data and because of its detailed examination of a newly emerged phenomenon. It will have considerable appeal across various academic disciplines and fields in the social sciences.» (European Journal of Communication 32/5 2017)

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