They Get You When You’re Not Looking
1:30pm - 3:00pm /
Wednesday 30th January 2019
/ Venue: Seminar Room 6 South Teaching Hub
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Dr Birte Gippert
- Admission: Admission is free, please email Birte Gippert to register: B.Gippert@liverpool.ac.uk
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They Get You When You’re Not Looking: The Politics of Media Coverage of Benefit Fraud with Dr Neil Gavin
When the political and social science community is reluctant to believe the media significantly influence how the public thinks about issues, it’s not surprising they are incurious about how these mass communication channels handle important issues. This paper looks at how one such issue, ‘benefit fraud’, is handled across the press, television and the important parts of the web. We’ll see how this issue plays out, and explore how it relates to public understanding of the issue, and consider its relationship to ‘austerity’ discourse and politics
When the political and social science community is reluctant to believe the media significantly influence how the public thinks about issues, it’s not surprising they are incurious about how these mass communication channels handle important issues. This paper looks at how one such issue, ‘benefit fraud’, is handled across the press, television and the important parts of the web. We’ll see how this issue plays out, and explore how it relates to public understanding of the issue, and consider its relationship to ‘austerity’ discourse and politics