1st Edition

The Transformation of the Media Globalisation, Morality and Ethics

By Nicholas Stevenson Copyright 1999
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

The changing pattern of contemporary media is one of the most striking and important transformations of our age. This major new work seeks to understand the implications of a series of mediated processes in relation to public cultures and modern identities. In The Transformation of the Media the author leads the reader through a number of complex theoretical issues, connecting the nature of... Read more

Introduction  1.Media, morality and modernity  2. Global media and technological change; social justice, recognition and meaningfulness of everyday life  3. Cultural citizenship  4. Global media cultures: contours in village life, hybridity or imperialist dominance?  5. Post-colonialism and mediated violence: the Rwandan Genocide  6. Media politics and the politics of the media: questions of critique and ambivalence

Biography

Nick Stevenson is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.