Media Culture & Morality (Center for Southeast Asia Studies) - Softcover

Tester, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041509836X ISBN 13: 9780415098366

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Media Culture and Morality This book argues that study of the media can only be culturally valuable and morally worthwhile if the lessons taught by sociology are remembered. Full description

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Keith Tester is Senior Lecturer, in the School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 041509836X
• ISBN 13: 9780415098366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148