Media Ethics and Social Change (Media Topics) - Softcover

Alia, Professor Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074861771X ISBN 13: 9780748617715

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Synopsis

An engaging and original study of current issues in media ethics, this book challenges students to explore the relationship between media ethics and social change. It considers the potentially beneficial uses of media practice for humanity, addressing questions of inclusivity and diversity and specialist topics that are absent from other texts. Using case studies and exercises based on real-life experiences of journalists, newsmakers, policy makers and consumers, Valerie Alia invites readers to examine current media practice and develop strategies for ethical problem solving and decision-making. Topics discussed include: ethical theories; social scientific theories; the search for a responsible practice; internationalisation of the media; the ethics of interviewing; politicians, power and spin; media, minorities and gender; arts, sports and travel; ethics and images; changing technologies; and codes and principles. Features * The only book to consider media ethics in the context of social change * Provides current examples of British and international media practice, theory, problem-solving exercises, workshop simulations and case studies * Includes original cartoons, rare photographs of great 'muckrakers', an annotated list of relevant films, and a full bibliography and index.

About this title

About the Author:

Valerie Alia is Visiting Professor, Centre for Research into Diversity in the Professions, Leeds Metropolitan University. She is the series editor for EUP's Media Topics series and author of The New Media Nation (Berghahn, 2009).

Review:

Valeria Alia's book is an ambitious attempt to look at media ethics from social scientific, philosophical and vocational perspectives! The book successfully negotiates the rocky path between vocational and academic life, demonstrating how in the media field an awareness of both is required to inform the protagonist.' The Lecturer This book provides a wealth of evidence for the centrality and the need for ethics across all genres of journalistic and media activity. It brings theory and practice together in accessible and practical ways, and offers a rich resource for further work in the form of valuable appendices and practical exercises. The book will be of real use in the introduction of ethics to theoretical and practical university courses in journalism and media studies, but it will also work for industry and community training programs: and that is quite an accomplishment. -- Professor Terry Threadgold, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Valeria Alia's book is an ambitious attempt to look at media ethics from social scientific, philosophical and vocational perspectives! The book successfully negotiates the rocky path between vocational and academic life, demonstrating how in the media field an awareness of both is required to inform the protagonist.' This book provides a wealth of evidence for the centrality and the need for ethics across all genres of journalistic and media activity. It brings theory and practice together in accessible and practical ways, and offers a rich resource for further work in the form of valuable appendices and practical exercises. The book will be of real use in the introduction of ethics to theoretical and practical university courses in journalism and media studies, but it will also work for industry and community training programs: and that is quite an accomplishment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074861771X
• ISBN 13: 9780748617715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240