Understanding Media Ethics / Edition 1

by David Sanford Horner

Overview

A student friendly exploration of both the theory and practice of media ethics. Full of pedagogy and covering the digital alongside the classical, no other book on the market is as up-to-date or as full of case studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901849207880
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/19/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

In September 2014 David Horner retired as a Principal Lecturer from the University of Brighton, having worked there since September 1992. He has held the position of Head of the Division of Information and Media Studies (2003 – 2007). He has served on many university and faculty committees including both Research Strategy Committee and Research Ethics Committee. He has supervised 10 Ph D students and was for a number of years Research Student Division Leader for the School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Studies. He has been also Course Leader for MA Information Studies (1998 – 2003). His research interests were primarily in the field of applied ethics: Information, Media and Computer Ethics. He has published many papers and given numerous conference presentations. He developed ‘film and philosophy’ as a specialism within Brighton’s media degree. David has developed and taught courses in media and communication ethics for over fifteen years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Since September 2015 he has been studying for an MA, by research, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Exeter on the philosophy of mind.

Table of Contents

Relating Media Ethics to Media Studies
Foundations: Methods in Media Ethics
Truth, Representation and Narrative
Solidarity, Sympathy and Neutrality
Valuing Images: Morality in Pictures
Liberty and Censorship: Politics, Religion and Sex
Morality, Taste and Violence
Regulating Media Content
Rights and Persons: the Boundaries of Privacy
Media Institutions: Morality and Markets
Professionalism and Codes of Practice
The New Media Landscape: Digital Media Ethics

Editorial Reviews

This book engages the reader in a complex but clear exposition of issues in media ethics. It offers a valuable introduction for the undergraduate reader, one which uses accessible contemporary case studies to explore a framework of challenging ethical philosophy, leading from Aristotle and Kant to Murdoch and Leveson.

Alec Charles