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Understanding media ethics / David Sanford Horner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horner, David Sanford, author.
- Series:
- Sage knowledge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Mass media.
- Journalistic ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Our new media landscape of social networking, blogging, and interactivity has forever changed how media content is produced and distributed. Choices about how to gather, evaluate and publish information are ever more complex. This blurring of boundaries between general public values and the values of media professionals has made media ethics an essential issue for media professionals, but also demonstrates how it must be intrinsically part of the wider public conversation. This book teaches students to navigate ethical questions in a digital society and apply ethical concepts and guidelines to their own practice. Using case studies, judgement call boxes and further reading, Understanding Media Ethics clarifies the moral concepts in media contexts, and enables students to apply them to practical decision making through real-life worked ...
- Contents:
- Part I Foundations 1
- Introduction 3
- Why Media Ethics? 3
- Defining Media Ethics 5
- Morality and Legality 6
- Facts and Values 8
- Overview of the Book 9
- 1 Moral Judgements 12
- Obstacles to Moral Judgements 14
- Responding to Moral Scepticism 18
- Chapter Review 26
- Further Reading 27
- How to Use This Article 27
- Part II Desirable Ends 29
- 2 Pleasure 31
- Right Action and the Public Interest 32
- The Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Controversy 35
- Bentham and the Democracy of Pleasures 39
- Limitations of Bentham's System 43
- Chapter Review 46
- Further Reading 47
- How to Use This Article 48
- 3 Markets 49
- Pleasure as a Guide to Judgements about Media Content 50
- The Murdochs' Attack 51
- Higher and Lower Pleasures 58
- Chapter Review 64
- Further Reading 65
- How to Use This Article 65
- 4 Liberty 67
- Restricting Free Speech 69
- The Private Sphere 71
- The Public Sphere: Freedom of Thought and Discussion 77
- Chapter Review 81
- Further Reading 82
- How to Use This Article 83
- 5 Violence 84
- Depictions of Violence: Arguments to Restriction 85
- Anatomy of the Argument from Emulation 89
- Dilemmas of Depiction 92
- Chapter Review 95
- Further Reading 96
- How to Use This Article 97
- 6 Pornography 98
- Sexuality and Pornography 99
- Conservative Arguments 104
- Liberal Arguments 107
- Feminist Arguments 110
- Chapter Review 113
- Further Reading 114
- How to Use This Article 114
- Part III Obligations 117
- 7 Truth 119
- Threats to Truthfulness 120
- A Deontological Perspective 122
- The Supreme Principle of Morality 124
- Is Lying Ever Permissible? 130
- Chapter Review 133
- Further Reading 135
- How to Use This Article 136
- 8 Images 137
- The Authority of Images 138
- Subverting the Authority of Images 141
- Can there be Legitimate Fakery for a 'Benevolent Motive'? 148
- Chapter Review 153
- Further Reading 153
- How to Use This Article 154
- 9 Stereotyping 156
- Stereotyping: A Moral Issue 157
- The Logic of Stereotyping 160
- The Immorality of Stereotyping 165
- The Relevance of Kant's Categorical Imperative 167
- Chapter Review 170
- Further Reading 171
- How to Use This Article 171
- 10 Privacy 173
- Defining Privacy 175
- Privacy Wars 179
- Chapter Review 188
- Further Reading 188
- How to Use This Article 189
- Part IV New Directions? 191
- 11 Security 193
- WikiLeaks 194
- The Right to Information Argument 199
- The Public Interest Argument: Whistle-blowing 201
- WikiLeaks: A Puzzle Case 203
- Chapter Review 204
- Further Reading 205
- How to Use This Article 206
- 12 Digital Ethics 207
- Emergent Media 209
- Computer Ethics 209
- Digital Media Ethics 215
- A Radical Alternative: Information Ethics 217
- Chapter Review 221
- Further Reading 222
- How to Use This Article 223
- 13 Wrong-Doing 224
- Reason and Reasons 225
- Blameworthiness 229
- Some Sources of Wrong-doing 232
- Conclusion: The Real and the Ideal 236
- Further Reading 237
- How to Use This Article 238.
- Notes:
- Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
- Description based on MARC record for print version.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781473910904
- OCLC:
- 1013953151
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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