Media Power and Concept of Class

Abstract

The presented article represents one of possible components of the author’s future dissertation paper and derives from several concepts of the media power within the theory of constructive structuralism. It will be applied to the issue of class struggle in modern Britain and how it is dealt with by the particular British print news media. The author plans to divide the final dissertation thesis into three parts. The first should deal with the empirical portrayal of what can be encountered in the selected British print news media. The second will concentrate on the theoretical interpretation of what can be found and what is hidden and distorted, that is, the specific nature of the media power. The third section will involve the concept of the world and its class system within present-day British society as devised by the journalists in the specific British print news media.