1st Edition

Media Culture & Morality

By Keith Tester Copyright 1994
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous production of books in the field and the lack of substantive insights generated. He argues that... Read more
Part 1 A Maggot; Introduction; Chapter 1 The problem of cultural studies; Chapter 2 The culture industry; Chapter 3 The audience; Chapter 4 The media and morality; Chapter 5 The silence;

Biography

Keith Tester Senior Lecturer, in the School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth.