What is it about?
This chapter investigates how Western media sensationalizes poverty in India through the use of "poverty porn" rhetoric. It discusses how poverty porn narrows the boundaries between myth and reality to present facts as emotional reality.
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Why is it important?
The study aims to challenge the logic of poverty porn as an international media practice and responds to the call for the de-Westernization of media discourses.
Perspectives
This essay criticizes how Western media uses Eastern miseries as rhetoric to sensationalize non-Western spaces as Others.
ADITH K SURESH
MacEwan University
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This page is a summary of: Media Sensationalism of the West and the Rhetoric of Poverty Porn in India, May 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003195276-11.
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