Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Media and class in the 21st century / Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Radhika Gajjala -- Working class bodies in advertising / Matthew P. McAllister and Litzy Galarza -- Faux class : hybridity and confusion on reality TV / June Deery -- Changing faces of migrants in Korean television : the mediated westernization of workers / Hun-Yul Lee -- Participation in reality television : performance, class and dance talent shows / Annette Hill & Koko Kondo -- Love, sex, money : gender and economic inequality in HIV edutainment programming in Kenya / Renee Botta -- Horse racing, social class, and the spaces of gambling / Holly Kruse -- "Keep it classy" : Grindr, Facebook and enclaves of queer privilege in India / Rohit Dasgupta -- YouTube-based programming and the Saudi youth : constructing a new online class and monetizing strategies / Omar Daoudi -- Mobile technology and class : Australian family households, socioeconomic status and techno-literacy / Will Balmford & Larissa Hjorth -- Hanging out at home as a lifestyle : YouTube home tour vlogs in East Asia / Crystal Abidin -- Young people, smartphones and invisible illiteracies : closing the potentiality-actuality chasm in mobile media / Sun Sun Lim & Sze Ming Loh -- Media, class and childhood in South Asia / Shakuntala Banaji -- The roots of journalistic perception : a Bourdieusian approach to media and class / Sandra Vera Sambrano & Matt Powers -- The aspirational class 'mobility' of digital nomads / Erika Polson -- Technologies of recognition : the classificatory function of social media in mobile careers / André Jansson -- The gig economy and class (de)composition / Todd Wolfson -- Digital hierarchies of laboring subjects / Kaitlyn Wauthier, Alyssa Fisher and Radhika Gajjala -- Between 'world class work' and 'proletarianised labor' : digital labor imaginaries in the global south / Cheryll Ruth Soriano & Jason Vincent Cabañes -- Class distinctions in urban broadband initiatives / Germaine Halegoua -- 'Second-class' access : homelessness and the digital materialization of class / Justine Humphry -- Marginality and social class in youth media / Mohamed El-Marzouki -- Reconsidering mobility : the competing logics of information and communication technologies across class differences in the context of Denver's gentrification / Lynn Schofield Clark -- Class interplay in social activism in Kenya / Job Mwaura -- The vivid particularities of class and Media / David Morley.

"This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire 'populists', to well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers, class is undergoing change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated contributions unpack how media industries, digital technologies, everyday media practices - and media studies itself - feed into and comment upon broader, interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a wide range of topics, such as economic inequality, workplace stratification, the sharing economy, democracy and journalism, globalization, and mobility/migration. Outward-looking, intersectional, and highly contemporary, The Routledge Companion to Media and Class is a must-read for students and researchers interested in the intersections between media, class, sociology, technology, and a changing world"--