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Understanding media ethics/ Horner, David Sanford

By: Horner, David SanfordMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Los Angeles: SAGE, 2014Description: 256 p. PBISBN: 1849207887DDC classification: 175

Contents:

PARTI FOUNDATIONS INTRODUCTION Why Media Ethics? Defining Media Ethics Morality and Legality Facts and Values Overview of the Book 1 MORAL JUDGEMENTS Obstacles to Moral Judgements Responding to Moral Scepticism Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article PART II DESIRABLE ENDS 2 PLEASURE Right Action and the Public Interest The Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Controversy Bentham and the Democracy of Pleasures Limitations of Bentham's System Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 3 MARKETS Pleasure as a Guide to Judgements about Media Content The Murdochs' Attack Higher and Lower Pleasures Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 4 LIBERTY Restricting Free Speech The Private Sphere The Public Sphere: Freedom of Thought and Discussion Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 5 VIOLENCE Depictions of Violence: Arguments to Restriction Anatomy of the Argument from Emulation Dilemmas of Depiction Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 6 PORNOGRAPHY Sexuality and Pornography Conservative Arguments Liberal Arguments Feminist Arguments Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article PART HI OBLIGATIONS 7 TRUTH Threats to Truthfulness A Deontological Perspective The Supreme Principle of Morality Is Lying Ever Pennissible? Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 8 IMAGES The Authority of Images Subverting the Authority of Images Can there be Legitimate Fakery for a 'Benevolent Motive'? Chapter Review Further Reading / How to Use This Article 9 STEREOTYPING Stereotyping; A Moral Issue The Logic of Stereotyping The Immorality of Stereotyping The Relevance of Kant's Categorical Imperative Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 10 PRIVACY Defining Privacy Privacy Wars Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article PART IV NEW DIRECTIONS? 11 SECURITY WikiLeaks The Right to Information Argument The Public Interest Argument: Whistle-blowing WikiLeaks: A Puzzle Case Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 12 DIGITAL ETHICS Emergent Media Computer Ethics Digital Media Ethics A Radical Alternative: Information Ethics Chapter Review Further Reading How to Use This Article 13 WRONG-DOING Reason and Reasons Blameworthiness Some Sources of Wrong-doing Conclusion: The Real and the Ideal Further Reading How to Use This Article

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PARTI FOUNDATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Why Media Ethics?
Defining Media Ethics
Morality and Legality
Facts and Values
Overview of the Book
1 MORAL JUDGEMENTS
Obstacles to Moral Judgements
Responding to Moral Scepticism
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
PART II DESIRABLE ENDS
2 PLEASURE
Right Action and the Public Interest
The Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Controversy
Bentham and the Democracy of Pleasures
Limitations of Bentham's System
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
3 MARKETS
Pleasure as a Guide to Judgements about Media Content
The Murdochs' Attack
Higher and Lower Pleasures
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
4 LIBERTY
Restricting Free Speech
The Private Sphere
The Public Sphere: Freedom of Thought and Discussion
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
5 VIOLENCE
Depictions of Violence: Arguments to Restriction
Anatomy of the Argument from Emulation
Dilemmas of Depiction
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
6 PORNOGRAPHY
Sexuality and Pornography
Conservative Arguments
Liberal Arguments
Feminist Arguments
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
PART HI OBLIGATIONS
7 TRUTH
Threats to Truthfulness
A Deontological Perspective
The Supreme Principle of Morality
Is Lying Ever Pennissible?
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
8 IMAGES
The Authority of Images
Subverting the Authority of Images
Can there be Legitimate Fakery for a 'Benevolent Motive'?
Chapter Review
Further Reading /
How to Use This Article
9 STEREOTYPING
Stereotyping; A Moral Issue
The Logic of Stereotyping
The Immorality of Stereotyping
The Relevance of Kant's Categorical Imperative
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
10 PRIVACY
Defining Privacy
Privacy Wars
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
PART IV NEW DIRECTIONS?
11 SECURITY
WikiLeaks
The Right to Information Argument
The Public Interest Argument: Whistle-blowing
WikiLeaks: A Puzzle Case
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
12 DIGITAL ETHICS
Emergent Media
Computer Ethics
Digital Media Ethics
A Radical Alternative: Information Ethics
Chapter Review
Further Reading
How to Use This Article
13 WRONG-DOING
Reason and Reasons
Blameworthiness
Some Sources of Wrong-doing
Conclusion: The Real and the Ideal
Further Reading
How to Use This Article

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