Reading the Homeless: The Media's Image of Homeless Culture

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As one of our country's major social problems, homelessness is often in the news. The media tend to portray the homeless as drunk, stoned, crazy, or sick individualsa portrayal that is only partly accurate and represents an obstacle to our understanding of the wider social implications of this complex issue. This edited collection examines the various waysboth verbal and visualin which the homeless have been portrayed by the media from the 1980s to the present day. The contributors apply different frameworks, ranging from phenomenology to culture studies, to analyze the characteristics, implications, and consequences of the stories and images disseminated by the media.

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[v]aluable for students and scholars of urban studies, media studies and cultural studies, and all those interested in challenging and dismantling the cultural constructions of homelessness.-Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Students of textual and linguistic analysis and semiotics will find abundant examples in this book.-Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"valuable for students and scholars of urban studies, media studies and cultural studies, and all those interested in challenging and dismantling the cultural constructions of homelessness."-Canadian Journal of Urban Research
"Students of textual and linguistic analysis and semiotics will find abundant examples in this book."-Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"[v]aluable for students and scholars of urban studies, media studies and cultural studies, and all those interested in challenging and dismantling the cultural constructions of homelessness."-Canadian Journal of Urban Research

Author Bio

EUNGJUN MIN is Associate Professor of Communications at Rhode Island College./e His research focuses on cultural approaches to studying media representations, their construction, and their impact on culture. He is also interested in crosscultural communication and cultural perspectives of new communication technologies.