Media and Morality

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Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media atthe heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that themedia (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasinglypeer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profoundsignificance for the way in which the world is understood by itscitizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of thatsignificance, and without a critique of the way in which the mediago about their daily business, we are likely to see an erosion inthe capacity of human beings to understand and respect each other,especially those whom they see and hear only in their mediation. In a world of increasing polarisation and demonisation, themedia have a powerful role to play. They can reinforce or they canchallenge that polarisation. The book proposes that we should thinkof the global media as a mediapolis, a single space of politicaland social communication, in which the basis for the relationshipsbetween neighbours and strangers can be either constructed ordestroyed. The mediapolis is a moral space, a space of hospitality,responsibility, obligation and judgement. And questioning itspresent and future requires attention to issues of media justice,media literacy and media regulation. Media and Morality is essential reading for all studentsand scholars of the media but will be of equal fascination toanyone interested in the workings of our modern world.

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Communication & Media Studies Ethics Ethik Journalism Journalismus Kommunikation u. Medienforschung Media Studies Medienforschung Philosophie Philosophy

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"[An immensely] complex and densely argued book. At the same time,it is intuitively in tune with many lay people, and possiblyincreasing numbers of journalists." Michael Bromley, Australian JournalismReview "What a wonderful book! A thoughtful and convincing narrative,theoretically enlightening, and explaining the necessary question:how is the medialized cosmopolitan public sphere - themediapolis - possible? A new Habermas! A new cosmopolitancritical theory of the emerging global civil society and itscontradictions." Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This is a very intelligent and original book by one of the mostconsistently interesting writers on the media. It is the mostpenetrating discussion of the moral challenges posed by ourrelationship to modern media systems, technologies and institutionsthat I have read to date. Roger Silverstone tackles big and complexissues here which go quite beyond what has come to be regarded asthe normal agenda of "media ethics". In doing so hegenerates some original and I believe powerful analytical conceptswhich should begin to establish the new moral-critical agenda thathe rightly judges to be so lacking in contemporary mediastudies." John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University "Roger Silverstone's delicate meditation offers a guide to theperplexed for the citizen-audiences of the emerging global mediasphere. Confronting a full agenda of problems facing humanity suchas terrorism, theologico-military empires, and the proper distancetoward minorities in an integrating world, Silverstone findssplinters of hope in the contradictory mess of mediated life today.The fact that media somehow bring the world together in a space ofappearance, he argues in a style that is at once critical, nuanced,and bold, is enough to encourage us to think of media and moralityin the same thought." John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
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