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In Urban Nightmares, Steve Macek documents the scope of alarmist representations of the city, examines the ideologies that informed them, and exposes the interests they ultimately served. Macek explains how Hollywood filmmakers, advertisers, and journalists validated the right-wing discourse on the urban crisis, popularizing its vocabulary and mobilizing fears of a perilous urban realm

Poverty is a persistent subject of news coverage. Whether as abject victims ofdisasters like Hurricane Katrina, as beneficiaries of charity, or as the focus ofsocial policy debates, the poor are recurring characters in journalism's day-to-daynarrative. More often than not, though, news media representations of the poordistort or obscure the structural causes of economic deprivation and promoteelements of the dominant, neoliberal ideology. A number of scholars have studiedhow news coverage of poverty has contributed to public hostility to welfareprograms, such as the now dismantled Aid to Families with Dependent Children(see, for instance, Gilens 1999). However, there has been a dearth of scholarlyattention to how the dominant ideological motifs running through news coverageof poverty in advanced capitalist countries also shape the international newsmedia's representations of the poor in the Global South. In Blaming the Victim:How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty, Jairo Lugo-Ocando takes up theambitious task of analyzing those common themes and of dissecting the institutionaland political economic structures that influence how the news media coverpoverty around the world.

Censorship, Digital Media and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression explores the rising global phenomenon of censorship across various media platforms, in schools, universities, and public spaces. It documents physical assaults, legal restrictions, and the exclusion of critical topics from public discourse. This volume analyzes contemporary censorship methods, emphasizing the anti-democratic implications and the threat to civil society, human rights, and global democracy. It delves into the dangerous consequences of suppressing dialogue, information dissemination, and educational materials, providing insight into the challenges faced by critical media literacy and activists. The book advocates for policy alternatives, including economic restructuring of media, global agreements on freedom of the press, and educational strategies to preserve global freedom of expression