Media & values : intimate transgressions in a changing moral and cultural landscape / David E. Morrison ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrison, David E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Moral and ethical aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Media and values

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides an empirical investigation into the moral performance of the media. Based on 22 focus groups, three nationally representative questionnaire surveys and interviews with senior media personnel and regulators, this book charts the changing position of the media as a moral voice representing ways in which we live.

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; The Philosophical Underpinnings; 1 The Need for a Moral Language; Part One; The Historical Context: The Moral Void; Cultural Contestation; Moral Decline and the Rights of the Individual; Part Two; The Transgression of Privacy; Interviewing the Industry; The Public and the Private: The Self-Monitoring of Behaviour; The Idea of Privacy; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: p. 389-392.

ISBN:

9786611172336

9781281172334

1281172332

9781841502175

1841502170

OCLC:

808677245