Media and Austerity: Comparative perspectives

The Media and Austerity explores the role of the news media in communicating and critiquing economic and social austerity measures in Europe since 2010, presenting chapters from UK, US, and European perspectives and investigating practices in financial journalism. It reveals that without a credible alternative to austerity, it became entrenched in political discourse.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 16 April 2018
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Media and Austerity examines the role of the news media in communicating and critiquing economic and social austerity measures in Europe since 2010. From an array of comparative, historical and interdisciplinary vantage points, this edited collection seeks to understand how and why austerity came to be perceived as the only legitimate policy response to the financial crisis for nearly a decade after it began.

Drawing on an international range of contributors with backgrounds in journalism, politics, history and economics, the book presents chapters exploring differing media representations of austerity from UK, US and European perspectives. It also investigates practices in financial journalism and highlights the role of social media in reporting public responses to government austerity measures. They reveal that, without a credible and coherent alternative to austerity from the political opposition, what had been an initial response to the consequences of the financial crisis, became entrenched between 2010 and 2015 in political discourse.

The Media and Austerity is a clear and concise introduction for students of journalism, media, politics and finance to the connections between the media, politics and society in relation to the public perception of austerity after the 2008 global financial crash.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138897311