Ethics and Entertainment
Ethics and Entertainment

Author: Howard Good

Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9780786439096

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As modern media shifts from the distribution of information to the creation of entertainment, a fresh inquiry into the ethics of media becomes vital. This collection of 19 essays provides useful guidelines and perspectives for the producers and consumers of entertainment. Topics covered include the contemporary creation of celebrity, the effects of entertainment on children, the hybridization of entertainment and news, author and intellectual property rights, and the role of human dignity in modern media, among many others. The essays question the nature and ethics of media entertainment as it becomes increasingly pervasive in our time.

Media Scandals
Media Scandals

Author: James Lull

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780231111652

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By exploring how scandals fuel mass media and popular culture, this book should stimulate discussion about the subject.

Media Culture & Morality
Media Culture & Morality

Author: Keith Tester

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1136146202

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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 such a mass of self-conscious criticism should have provided a moral critique of contemporary culture not the quagmire of theoretical verbiage and threadbare politicizing we are faced with today. The book is a disturbing speculation on the fate of moral and cultural values in a media-dominated world.

Media, Culture, and Morality
Media, Culture, and Morality

Author: Keith Tester

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 041509836X

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Examines the paradoxical situation where the media report terrible events, but the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial.

Social Media and Morality
Social Media and Morality

Author: Lisa S. Nelson

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-21

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1107164931

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This book explains the mediating effects of social media on our morality.

Media Ethics
Media Ethics

Author: Clifford G. Christians

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1317346521

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Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, Ninth Edition challenges students to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication by using original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This market-leading text facilitates and enhances students' ethical awareness by providing a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical philosophies. Media Ethics introduces the Potter Box (which uses four dimensions of moral analysis: definitions, values, principles and loyalties) to provide a framework for exploring the important steps in moral reasoning and analyzing the cases that follow. Focusing on a wide spectrum of ethical issues facing media practitioners, the cases in this new Ninth Edition include the most recent issues in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations and entertainment.

Listening Publics
Listening Publics

Author: Kate Lacey

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0745665209

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In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication.

Digital Media Ethics
Digital Media Ethics

Author: Charles Ess

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0745672418

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The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current research and scholarship, and recent developments and technological changes. It also benefits from extensively updated case-studies and pedagogical material, including examples of “watershed” events such as privacy policy developments on Facebook and Google+ in relation to ongoing changes in privacy law in the US, the EU, and Asia. New for the second edition is a section on “citizen journalism” and its implications for traditional journalistic ethics. With a significantly updated section on the “ethical toolkit,” this book also introduces students to prevailing ethical theories and illustrates how they are applied to central issues such as privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions, additional resources, and suggestions for further research and writing. Together, these enable readers to foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of these issues and their possible resolutions.

Media Marathoning
Media Marathoning

Author: Lisa Glebatis Perks

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0739196758

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Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality is a scholarly study of the intense relationship between reader and story world, analyzing the way audiences become absorbed in a fictive text and dedicate many hours to exploring its narrative contours. Rather than view these media experiences as mindless indulgences, “media marathoning” connotes a conjoined triumph of commitment and stamina. Compared to more traditional, slower-paced media engagement patterns, media marathoning affords readers greater depth of story world engagement, maximizing the emotional and cognitive rewards of the media experience. Through immersive marathoning experiences, audiences can seriously engage with mediated questions about human nature and society, refining our orientation toward morality through internal dialogue about the story and communication with other readers as we process the meaningful journey. As digital technologies facilitate easier, user-centered access to media texts, narratives increase in complexity, and more readers seek immersive story world experiences, marathoning looks to be the new normal of media engagement. Drawing from qualitative studies of book, film, and television marathoners, along with textual analysis of commonly marathoned stories, Media Marathoning presents a holistic look at marathoning’s cultural impact.

Understanding Media Cultures
Understanding Media Cultures

Author: Nick Stevenson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-04-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780761973638

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The Second Edition of this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to theorize the importance of the media in contemporary society. Understanding Media Cultures is now fully revised and takes account of the recent theoretical developments associated with New Media and Information Society, as well as the audience and the public sphere.