June Deery is Professor of Media Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Palgrave, 2012) and Reality TV (Polity, 2015). Her latest work looks at reality TV and the campaign and early administration of Donald Trump.

Andrea Press is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the former Executive Editor of the Virginia Film Festival and Producer of the Roger Ebert Film Festival. She is the author or co-author of The New Media Environment, Speaking of Abortion, Women Watching Television, and the forthcoming volumes Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism, Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, and Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age.

1. Introduction: Studying Media and Class

June Deery and Andrea Press

CLASS REPRESENTATION AS ENTERTAINMENT

2. The Media's Failure to Represent the Working Class: Explanations from Media Production and Beyond

David Hesmondhalgh

3. Class and Gender through Seven Decades of American Television Sitcoms

Richard Butsch

4. TV Screening: The Entertainment Value of Poverty and Wealth

June Deery

5. Sex, Class, and Trash: Money, Status and Classed "Dreams" in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Andrea Press and Marjorie Rosen

DOCUMENTING CLASS

6. Performing Class and Taste through the Documentary Lens

John Corner

7. How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity

Laurie Ouellette

MEDIA LEISURE/ LABOR

8. The Working Class, Ordinary Celebrity, and Illegitimate Cultural Work

Helen Wood, Jilly Boyce Kay and Mark Banks

9. Idols of Self-Production: Selfies, Career Success and Social Class

Anita Biressi

10. Rich TV, Poor TV: Work, leisure and the construction of 'deserved inequality' in contemporary Britain

Jo Littler and Milly Williamson

DIGITAL CULTURES

11. When Left Theory "leaves behind the dream of a Revolution": Class and the Software Economy

Robert Wilkie

12. Class in "The Class": Conservative, Competitive, and (Dis)connected

Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green

13. For Themselves and for Their Communities: Alternative Mediations of Digital Natives

Vicki Mayer and Aline Maia

14. Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection

Jen Schradie