The bold argument of Mediated Intimacy (Barker et al., 2018) 1 is that media of various kinds
play an increasingly important role in shaping people's knowledge, desires, practices and …

One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the
numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article …

Tracey Jensen grew up in the coastal badlands of Essex, grew wise in the edgelands of
south London and is now happily ensconced in Lancashire. She is a lecturer in Media and …

Drawing on data from linked qualitative longitudinal studies, this paper considers the under-
researched impacts of economic crisis and austerity on men with care responsibilities in low …

Foregrounding the voices of minority women in England, Scotland and France, Minority
Women and Austerity provides a rich and compelling account of austerity's lived effects …

Increasingly, social media platforms are understood by researchers to be valuable sites of
politically-relevant discussions. However, analyses of social media data are typically …

x Preface aesthetic responses are integral to human societies. In a somewhat similar vein
but coming from the direction of genre, Mikhail Bakhtin (1986) argues that since all forms of …

This article responds to Gozdziak's (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that
informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives …

By focusing on discourses within the 'cultural economy'of reality TV, the following considers
the wider positioning of waged labor as essential for mental health during a period of …

This thesis explores the gendered impact of austerity, contributing to an enhanced
understanding of women's experiences of austerity. It approaches austerity as a set of …