1st Edition

Ethics and Media Culture: Practices and Representations

By David Berry Copyright 2000
370 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

Ethics and Media Culture straddles the practical and ethical issues of contention encountered by journalists. The book's various contributors cover a diversity of issues and viewpoints, attempting to broaden out the debates particularly in relation to Journalism Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture and Communications, Philosophy and History. The debate concerning media ethics has... Read more
Radical mass media criticism: elements of a history from Kraus to Bourdieu; Trust in media practices: towards a cultural development; Enframing/revealing: on the question of ethics and difference in technologies of mediation; The 'fourth estate' and moral responsibilities; Reproducing consciousness: what is Indonesia?; The manufacture of news - fast moving consumer goods production, or public service?; 'If it bleeds, it leads': ethical questions about popular journalism; New Labour, New Britain. Campaign politics and the ethics of spin; Parody, pastiche or purloining? The uses and abuses of artistic imagery in media representations; 'Sock': the value of emotion; Cyber-ethics: regulation and privitasition; 'Sweet well of sexcess': the production of young women's magazines and readership in the 1990s; A social drama: media violence controversies and anti-violence campaign groups; Consuming interests in a culture of secrecy; And the consequence was ... Dealing with the human impact of unethical journalism; A degree of uncertainty: aspects of the debate over the regulation of the press in the UK since 1945; Codes and cultures; Media ethics at the sharp end

Biography

David Berry