Ethics and Media Culture: Practices and Representations

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Dedication
4. Title Page
5. Copyright Page
6. Table of Contents
7. Preface
8. Notes on contributors
9. Acknowledgements
10. Introduction
11. 1 Radical mass media criticism: elements of a history from Kraus to Bourdieu
    1. References
12. 2 Trust in media practices: towards cultural development
    1. Faking
    2. The pursuit of truth
    3. The value of truth
    4. Trust or democratic accountability?
    5. On the question of cultural development
    6. Conclusion
    7. Postscript
    8. Endnotes
    9. References
13. 3 Enframing/revealing: on the question of ethics and difference in technologies of mediation
    1. Understanding media technologies
    2. Dangers and saving powers
    3. Différance and mediation
    4. Conclusion
    5. Endnotes
    6. References
14. 4 The 'fourth estate' and moral responsibilities
    1. Introduction
    2. The individual and the social contract
    3. The indetermincy of journalism
    4. Cultural politics
    5. Conclusion
    6. Endnotes
    7. References
15. 5 Reproducing consciousness: what is Indonesia?
    1. Representation
    2. Constructing Indonesia
    3. Contesting national constructions
    4. Adat
    5. Conclusion
    6. Endnotes
    7. References
16. 6 The manufacture of news - fast moving consumer goods production, or public service?
    1. Dealing with 'the crisis': professionals and workers
    2. A shared ideology and shared ethics?
    3. Caught in the middle
    4. Conclusion
    5. Endnotes
    6. References
17. 7 'If it bleeds, it leads': ethical questions about popular journalism
    1. Introduction
    2. Representing the public interest
    3. Journalism ethics: critical issues
    4. Freedom of the press
    5. The public trust
    6. Truth, facts and objectivity
    7. Infotainment
    8. Professionalism
    9. Endnotes
    10. References
18. 8 New Labour, New Britain. Campaign politics and the ethics of spin
    1. Introduction: 'the battle of spin'
    2. The 1959 General Election campaign and the emer gence of a 'feel good' politics
    3. Harold Wilson and the 'New Britain' 1964
    4. A message in touch with its times: the media response to the 'New Britain' of 1964
    5. New Labour, New Britain 1996-7
    6. The packaging of New Labour 1997
    7. The controversy of 1997
    8. Old versus new: tabloidisation
    9. High versus low: 'dumbing down'
    10. News and habitus
    11. Conclusion
    12. Acknowledgement
    13. Endnotes
    14. References
19. 9 Parody, pastiche or purloining? The uses and abuses of artistic imagery in media representations
    1. Case study No. 1
    2. Case Study No. 2
    3. Endnotes
    4. References
20. 10 'Shock': the value of emotion
    1. Introduction
    2. Responding to shock
    3. The realm of emotion
    4. Summary
    5. Conclusion: Towards a media ethics
    6. Endnotes
    7. References
21. 11 Cyber-ethics: regulation and privatisation
    1. Some history and theory
    2. The origins of the network
    3. Privacy and protection
    4. Access and control
    5. Endnotes
    6. References
22. 12 'Sweet sell of sexcess': the production of young women's magazines and readerships in the 1990s
    1. 'Nothing but sex, clothes and boyfriends'
    2. Morality, 'the family' and media regulation
    3. Feminist magazine scholarship and women's magazines
    4. Shifting cultures of femininity in the 1990s
    5. Endnotes
    6. References
23. 13 A social drama: media violence controversies and anti-violence campaign groups
    1. Introduction
    2. A brief overview of British anti-violence campaign groups
    3. Media violence controversies and the social drama of risk
    4. Ethics and media violence
    5. Endnotes
    6. References
24. 14 Consuming interests in a culture of secrecy
    1. Introduction
    2. The power of secrecy
    3. A multitude of sins
    4. Evaluating news
    5. Squaring the circle
    6. Endnotes
    7. References
25. 15 And the consequence was ... Dealing with the human impact of unethical journalism
    1. Introduction
    2. PressWise - the media ethics body
    3. Are journalists supposed to be ethical?
    4. Straining credibility
    5. Time is not the great healer
    6. Open to interpretation
    7. The bottom line
    8. Where next?
    9. Endnotes
26. 16 A degree of uncertainty: aspects of the debate over the regulation of the press in the UK since 1945
    1. The removal of state controls
    2. The problem of standards
    3. Self-regulation and the second Royal Commission
    4. The third Royal Commission and after
    5. An unresolved issue
    6. Acknowledgement
    7. References
27. 17 Codes and cultures
    1. Endnotes
    2. References
28. 18 Media ethics at the sharp end
    1. The Nigerian civil war
    2. The Hudson Report
    3. Endnote
29. Index