Ethics and Media Culture: Practices and Representations

by Berry; David

• ISBN13: 9780240516035
• ISBN10: 0240516036
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethics and Media Culture straddles the practical and ethical issues of contention encountered by journalists. The book's various contributors cover a diversity of issues and viewpoints, attempting to broaden out the debates particularly in relation to Journalism Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture and Communications, Philosophy and History. the debate concerning media ethics has intensified in recent years, fuelled mainly by the standards of journalist and media practices. The role of practitioners has taken centre-stage as concerns over what constitutes ethical, and therefore socially acceptable practice and behaviour, by the public, practitioners and intellectuals alike. The discursive relationship between the production and consumption of information is central to the debate regarding moral conduct, particularly in light of the commercialisation of the media. Considering that media institutions operate in a climate of intense competition, the value of information and its corresponding quality have begun to be critically assessed in terms of ethical understanding. A degree of open-endedness is maintained in discussions throughout this book, which is intended to engage the reader with the issues raised and determine their own conclusions.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Notes on contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xix
Introduction	1	(10)
Radical mass media criticism: elements of a history from Kraus to Bourdieu	11	(17)
John Theobald
References	26	(2)
Trust in media practices: towards cultural development	28	(26)
David Berry
Faking	32	(3)
The pursuit of truth	35	(2)
The value of truth	37	(3)
Trust or democratic accountability?	40	(6)
On the question of cultural development	46	(1)
Conclusion	47	(3)
Postscript	50	(1)
Endnotes	50	(1)
References	51	(3)
Enframing/revealing: on the question of ethics and difference in technologies of mediation	54	(19)
Joost van Loon
Understanding media technologies	59	(4)
Dangers and saving powers	63	(3)
Differance and mediation	66	(3)
Conclusion	69	(1)
Endnotes	70	(1)
References	70	(3)
The `fourth estate' and moral responsibilities	73	(16)
Andrew Edgar
Introduction	73	(1)
The individual and the social contract	74	(2)
The indetermincy of journalism	76	(5)
Cultural politics	81	(3)
Conclusion	84	(2)
Endnotes	86	(1)
References	87	(2)
Reproducing consciousness: what is Indonesia?	89	(22)
Carol Davis
Nick Rayner
Representation	95	(3)
Constructing Indonesia	98	(3)
Contesting national constructions	101	(3)
Adat	104	(2)
Conclusion	106	(1)
Endnotes	107	(1)
References	107	(4)
The manufacture of news -- fast moving consumer goods production, or public service?	111	(21)
Michael Bromley
Dealing with `the crisis': professionals and workers	114	(4)
A shared ideology and shared ethics?	118	(3)
Caught in the middle	121	(3)
Conclusion	124	(1)
Endnotes	125	(1)
References	126	(6)
`If it bleeds, it leads': ethical questions about popular journalism	132	(22)
Cynthia Carter
Stuart Allan
Introduction	132	(3)
Representing the public interest	135	(4)
Journalism ethics: critical issues	139	(1)
Freedom of the press	140	(1)
The public trust	141	(2)
Truth, facts and objectivity	143	(2)
Infotainment	145	(2)
Professionalism	147	(2)
Endnotes	149	(1)
References	150	(4)
New Labour, New Britain. Campaign politics and the ethics of spin	154	(25)
Stephen Hayward
Introduction: `the battle of spin'	154	(3)
The 1959 General Election campaign and the emergence of a `feel good' politics	157	(1)
Harold Wilson and the `New Britain' 1964	158	(2)
A message in touch with its times: the media response to the `New Britain' of 1964	160	(2)
New Labour, New Britain 1996--7	162	(2)
The packaging of New Labour 1997	164	(2)
The controversy of 1997	166	(1)
Old versus new: tabloidistion	167	(2)
High versus low: `dumbing down'	169	(1)
News and habitus	170	(2)
Conclusion	172	(1)
Acknowledgement	173	(1)
Endnotes	173	(2)
References	175	(4)
Parody, pastiche or purloining? The uses and abuses of artistic imagery in media representations	179	(13)
Sanda Miller
Case study No. 1	179	(5)
Case Study No. 2	184	(6)
Endnotes	190	(1)
References	190	(2)
`Shock': the value of emotion	192	(16)
Jason Barker
Introduction	192	(1)
Responding to shock	193	(5)
The realm of emotion	198	(4)
Summary	202	(1)
Conclusion: Towards a media ethics	203	(2)
Endnotes	205	(1)
References	206	(2)
Cyber-ethics: regulation and privatisation	208	(17)
Paul Walton
Some history and theory	210	(4)
The origins of the network	214	(3)
Privacy and protection	217	(3)
Access and control	220	(3)
Endnotes	223	(1)
References	223	(2)
`Sweet sell of sexcess': the production of young women's magazines and readerships in the 1990s	225	(23)
Anna Gough-Yates
`Nothing but sex, clothes and boyfriends'	226	(4)
Morality, `the family' and media regulation	230	(4)
Feminist magazine scholarship and women's magazines	234	(6)
Shifting cultures of femininity in the 1990s	240	(4)
Endnotes	244	(1)
References	245	(3)
A social drama: media violence controversies and anti-violence campaign groups	248	(14)
Annette Hill
Introduction	248	(1)
A brief overview of British anti-violence campaign groups	249	(3)
Media violence controversies and the social drama of risk	252	(5)
Ethics and media violence	257	(3)
Endnotes	260	(1)
References	260	(2)
Consuming interests in a culture of secrecy	262	(16)
Miranda Basner
Introduction	262	(2)
The power of secrecy	264	(2)
A multitude of sins	266	(4)
Evaluating news	270	(2)
Squaring the circle	272	(5)
Endnotes	277	(1)
References	277	(1)
And the consequence was ... Dealing with the human impact of unethical journalism	278	(19)
Mike Jempson
Introduction	278	(1)
Press Wise -- the media ethics body	279	(1)
Are Journalists supposed to be ethical?	280	(3)
Straining credibility	283	(4)
Time is not the great healer	287	(2)
Open to interpretation	289	(2)
The bottom line	291	(1)
Where next?	292	(2)
Endnotes	294	(3)
A degree of uncertainty: aspects of the debate over the regulation of the press in the UK since 1945	297	(14)
Tom O'Malley
The removal of state controls	298	(1)
The problem of standards	299	(3)
Self-regulation and the second Royal Commission	302	(2)
The third Royal Commission and after	304	(3)
An unresolved issue	307	(1)
Acknowledgement	308	(1)
References	308	(3)
Codes and cultures	311	(14)
Philip Dring
Endnotes	323	(1)
References	324	(1)
Media ethics at the sharp end	325	(14)
Bill Norris
The Nigerian civil war	326	(7)
The Hudson Report	333	(4)
Endnote	337	(2)
Index	339