Image Ethics in the Digital Age

by Katz, John Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780816638253
• ISBN10: 081663825X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

From digital retouching to wholesale deception, the media world is now beset by an unprecedented range of moral, ethical, legal, and professional challenges. "Image Ethics in the Digital Age brings together leading experts in the fields of journalism, media studies, and law to address these challenges and assess their implications for personal and social values and behavior.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Image Ethics in the Digital Age
Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby	vii
1. The Internet: Big Pictures and Interactors
David D. Perlmutter	1	(26)
2. Professional Oversight: Policing the Credibility of Photojournalism
Dona Schwartz	27	(26)
3. News Norms and Emotions: Pictures of Pain and Metaphors of Distress
Jessica M. Fishman	53	(18)
4. Instant Transmission: Covering Columbine's Victims and Villains
Marguerite J. Moritz	71	(24)
5. Privacy and Spectacle: The Reversible Panopticon and Media-Saturated Society
Larry Gross	95	(20)
6. Daytime Talk Shows: Ethics and Ordinary People on Television
Laura Grindstaff	115	(28)
7. Copyright Law and the Challenge of Digital Technology
Sheldon W. Halpern	143	(28)
8. Fair Use and the Visual Arts: Please Leave Some Room for Robin Hood
Stephen E. Weil	171	(12)
9. Digital Technology and Stock Photography: And God Created Photoshop
Paul Frosh	183	(34)
10. Computer-Generated Images: Wildlife and Natural History Films
Derek Bousé	217	(30)
11. White and Wong: Race, Porn, and the World Wide Web
Darrell Y. Hamamoto	247	(22)
12. The Advertising Photography of Richard Avedon and Sebastião Salgado
Matthew Soar	269	(26)
13. Indigenous Media: Negotiating Control over Images
Faye Ginsburg	295	(18)
14. "Moral Copyright": Indigenous People and Contemporary Film
Hart Cohen	313	(14)
15. Family Film: Ethical Implications for Consent
John Stuart Katz	327	(16)
Afterword: Digital Image Ethics
Howard S. Becker and Dianne Hagaman	343	(8)
Contributors	351	(4)
Index	355