Media, culture, and morality
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Media, culture, and morality
Routledge, 1994
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references(p. [131]-134) and indexes
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ISBN 9780415098359
Description
Major and terrible events are happening throughout the world. They are reported daily by the media, and yet most people seem to remain unmoved and uncaring. Are the media themselves responsible for this lack of care? Meanwhile, owing to the emergence and popularity of cultural studies, the media are being studied as never before. But why is that study frequently trivial and lacking in moral seriousness? Is the discipline of cultural studies part of the problem rather than the solution? This study poses these questions and encourages reflection on such topics as advertisements for coffee, which can give rise to more comment than do famines. This book argues that the study of the media can only be culturally valuable and morally worthwhile if it remembers the lessons taught by sociology.
Table of Contents
- The Problem of Cultural Studies
- The Culture Industry
- The Audience
- The Media and Morality
- The Silence.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415098366
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First published in 1994. The media report terrible events. But the academic study of the media is increasingly trivial and lacking in moral seriousness. Media, Culture and Morality examines how this paradoxical situation could have emerged. The author seizes upon the disparity between the enormous production of books in the field and the lack of substantive insights generated. He argues that such a mass of self-conscious criticism should have provided a moral critique of contemporary culture not the quagmire of theoretical verbiage and threadbare politicizing we are faced with today. The book is a disturbing speculation on the fate of moral and cultural values in a media-dominated world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A Maggot
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The problem of cultural studies
- Chapter 2 The culture industry
- Chapter 3 The audience
- Chapter 4 The media and morality
- Chapter 5 The silence
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