Media Corruption in the Age of Information: 15 (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, 15) - Hardcover

Spence, Edward H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030616118 ISBN 13: 9783030616113

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news. The book starts with a conceptual philosophical analysis of corruption in general, followed by an in-depth analysis of media corruption, across its various transformations, from the legacy media of the 4th Estate (e.g. The UK Guardian) to the digital media of the 5th Estate (e.g. Social Media and Wikileaks) to the Network Media of the 6th Estate (e.g. Facebook and Google), and provides key case studies as practical illustrations and contextualisation of those major types of media corruption. It explains how the conversion of the two forms of media communication, corporate and social digital communication, as expressed in the symbiotic relationship between the 4th Estate and the 5th Estate exposes andenables the reporting of corruption, signalling a major shift in the way the media itself can provide an effective means for anti-corruption measures against major practices of corruption that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. 

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About the Author

Dr. Edward Howlett Spence is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University in Australia, and Research Fellow at the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology in the Netherlands. Spence received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney. His main areas of research are moral philosophy, professional and applied ethics, and philosophy and ethics of technology. 

From the Back Cover

This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news. The book starts with a conceptual philosophical analysis of corruption in general, followed by an in-depth analysis of media corruption, across its various transformations, from the legacy media of the 4th Estate (e.g. The UK Guardian) to the digital media of the 5th Estate (e.g. Social Media and Wikileaks) to the Network Media of the 6th Estate (e.g. Facebook and Google), and provides key case studies as practical illustrations and contextualisation of those major types of media corruption. It explains how the conversion of the two forms of media communication, corporate and social digital communication, as expressed in the symbiotic relationship between the 4th Estate and the 5th Estate exposes and enables the reporting of corruption, signalling a major shift in the way the media itself can provide an effective means for anti-corruption measures against major practices of corruption that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030616118
• ISBN 13: 9783030616113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 245