Toenemende ongelijkheid van inkomens en van mediaconsumptie: gevolgen voor sociaal-cultureel burgerschap
- Jan A.G.M. Van Dijk
Abstract
An analysis of time series data in the statistics of household budgets supplied by the Dutch official organisation CBS reveales a trend of expenditures for the most important media in the Netherlands that is more increasing for households with the highest 30 percent of incomes than for the ones with the lowest 30 percent. The last ones are saving on the quantity and diversity of media resources. This appears to go stronger for households with minimum incomes. The ‘media consumption gap’ between high and low incomes is growing. The resulting potential reduction of media resources to audiovisual equipment, telephone and cheap audiovisual substitutes for papers and magazines (cable news and Teletext or Ceefax) among citizens with low income would have a negative impact on their participation in social-cultural affairs.
How to Cite:
Van Dijk, J., (1994) “Toenemende ongelijkheid van inkomens en van mediaconsumptie: gevolgen voor sociaal-cultureel burgerschap”, Massacommunicatie : Wetenschappelijk Kwartaaltijdschrift voor Communicatie en Informatie 22(1), 2–26.
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