Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social Murder
Literature now exists on how the media reports on health inequalities. One compelling concept as to the sources and impacts of health inequalities is “social murder” as articulated by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 volume, The Condition of the Working Class in England, whereby the capitalist economic...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2022-02-01
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| description | Literature now exists on how the media reports on health inequalities. One compelling concept as to the sources and impacts of health inequalities is “social murder” as articulated by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 volume, The Condition of the Working Class in England, whereby the capitalist economic system sent workers prematurely to the grave to serve the profit motives of the bourgeoisie. There is a reemergence of the concept in the academic literature in response to growing social and health inequalities, but is this material being reported to the public? We examine news content since the turn of the 21st century and find a significant increase since 2017 in reporting that evokes the social murder concept in relation to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the imposition of austerity in Canada and the UK. We consider these developments in relation to journalists’ roles and their reporting on health inequalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17efa41776de49a5879a25aa7ebaf0182023-09-02T14:58:00ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X2022-02-01201628110.31269/triplec.v20i1.13231323Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social MurderPiara Govender0Stella Medvedyuk1Dennis Raphael2Graduate Program in Health Policy and Equity, York UniversityGraduate Program in Health Policy and Equity, York UniversityYork University School of Health Policy and ManagementLiterature now exists on how the media reports on health inequalities. One compelling concept as to the sources and impacts of health inequalities is “social murder” as articulated by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 volume, The Condition of the Working Class in England, whereby the capitalist economic system sent workers prematurely to the grave to serve the profit motives of the bourgeoisie. There is a reemergence of the concept in the academic literature in response to growing social and health inequalities, but is this material being reported to the public? We examine news content since the turn of the 21st century and find a significant increase since 2017 in reporting that evokes the social murder concept in relation to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the imposition of austerity in Canada and the UK. We consider these developments in relation to journalists’ roles and their reporting on health inequalities.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1323social murderfriedrich engelshealth inequalitiescapitalismnews media |
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| title | Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social Murder |
| title_full | Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social Murder |
| title_fullStr | Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social Murder |
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| title_short | Mainstream News Media's Engagement with Friedrich Engels’s Concept of Social Murder |
| title_sort | mainstream news media s engagement with friedrich engels s concept of social murder |
| topic | social murder friedrich engels health inequalities capitalism news media |
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