Lost in Media The Ethics of Everyday Life

Name: Lost in Media The Ethics of Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9781433113666

ISBN-10: 143311366X

ISBN-13: 9781433113666

Edition: 2012

Authors: Benjamin Frymer, Tony Kashani

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Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and that will arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Films, television, and new media often serve the globalization aims of a capitalist society as they function to socially reproduce the hegemonic norms, values, and styles of the larger society. Chapters in this book use critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism; journalism's erosion of communication of truth; public relations ethics of perception management; yielding self-censorship in the media; entertainment media pedagogically cultivating consumerism and docility; music and morality; misrepresentation…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Foreword



Acknowledgments




Introduction




From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock, and Schlock




We Are All in This Thing Together: The Complex Ethics of Social Media Networking




Ritalin: Panic in the USA




The Murdoch Media Empire, Journalistic Ethics, and the Spectacle of Scandal




Media and Ethics: The Public Sphere, Truth Telling, and Practice of Freedom




Alienation in the Age of Spectacle Culture




Neoliberal Media's Commodification of Occupy Wall Street and Radical Social Movements




With No Responsibility: The Colbert Show




The Devil Is in the Details: Christian Messages Gliding Unseen Within Deep Blue Sea




Why Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle: The Representation of Otherness in Mainstream Teen Cinema




No-Win Avatar: Culture Clash in Pocahontas Revisited



Appendix: A Brief Media Studies Resource



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