Jones (2012) - Media Representation of Working Class

• Jones conducted his studies on media representations of working class in 2012
• Jones (2012) argued that media use for the term 'Chav' has become a way of mocking the working class culture and people
• Jones (2012) uses the 'Chavtainment' to refer to TV Shows that show working class people as "bigoted, slothful, aggressive people who cannot look after themselves, let alone their alone children"
• Jones (2012) criticises TV Shows which portray working class people in a negative way (such as the Jeremy Kyle Show & Wife Swap)
• Jones (2012) discussed the working class people have gone from being represented as "salt of the Earth people" to "scum of the Earth"
• The working classes are represented as feckless racists who hate immigration and multiculturalism coverage of Brexit seems to offer support of this