Media, Markets, and Morals

by Spence, Edward H.; Alexandra, Andrew; Quinn, Aaron; Dunn, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781405175463
• ISBN10: 140517546X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can be promoted within the industry. Brings together experts in the fields of media studies and media ethics, information ethics, and professional ethics Offers an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media Builds upon and further develops an innovative theoretical model for examining and evaluating media corruption and methods of media anti-corruption previously developed by authors Spence and Quinn Discloses and clarifies the inherent ethical nature of information and its communication to which the media as providers of information are necessarily committed

Author Biography

Edward H. Spence is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Australia, and Research Fellow at the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, The Hague, Netherlands. Andrew Alexandra is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Melbourne. Aaron Quinn is Assistant Professor of Journalism at California State University, Chico. Anne Dunn is Associate Professor in the Department or Media and Communications and Pro Dean Academic in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Information Ethics as a Guide for the Media: Old Tricks for New Dogs	p. 16
The Business of the Media and the Business of the Market	p. 50
Professionalism in Behavior and Identity	p. 73
A Conflict of Media Roles: Advertising, Public Relations, and Journalism	p. 95
Corruption in the Media	p. 124
Two Dimensions of Photo Manipulation: Correction and Corruption	p. 154
Promoting, Codifying, and Regulating Ethics	p. 177
Moral Excellence and Role Models in the Media	p. 199
Index	p. 218
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