Communications and Inequality: The Media and Citizenship in Class Societies - Hardcover

by Peter Golding (Author)

Written by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

Author Biography

Peter Golding is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Until July 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Loughborough University, where he was Head of Social Sciences from 1991-2006. He is Hon. President of the Media Research Network of the European Sociological Association, editor of the European Journal of Communication, and Hon. Sec. of the subject association for the field in the UK (MeCCSA). He chaired the Research Assessment Exercise for the field in the UK in 2008 and 2014. He has published widely on media sociology, the political economy of the media, and on communications and social policy.