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Harm and Offence in Media Content

Author : Andrea Millwood Hargrave

Publisher : Intellect (UK)

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 20,45 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Computers and children

ISBN : 9781841502380

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Presents a comprehensive analysis of research on content-related media harm and offense. This book brings together findings on both established and newer interactive media. In today's media and communications environment, pressing questions arise regarding the media's potential for harm, especially in relation to children. This fully revised edition offers a unique and comprehensive analysis of the latest research on content-related media harm and offense. For the first time, a balanced, critical account brings together findings on both established and newer, interactive media.Arguing against asking simple questions about media effects, the case is made for contextualizing media content and use within a multi-factor, risk-based framework in order to guide future research and policy formation.



Ethics and the Media

Author : Stephen J. A. Ward

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 23,45 MB

Release : 2011-09-15

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1139502603

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to media ethics and an exploration of how it must change to adapt to today's media revolution. Using an ethical framework for the new 'mixed media' ethics – taking in the global, interactive media produced by both citizens and professionals – Stephen J. A. Ward discusses the ethical issues which occur in both mainstream and non-mainstream media, from newspapers and broadcast to social media users and bloggers. He re-defines traditional conceptions of journalistic truth-seeking, objectivity and minimizing harm, and examines the responsible use of images in an image-saturated public sphere. He also draws the contours of a future media ethics for the 'new mainstream media' and puts forward cosmopolitan principles for a global media ethics. His book will be invaluable for all students of media and for others who are interested in media ethics.





Media and the Politics of Offence

Author : Anne Graefer

Publisher : Springer

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 34,92 MB

Release : 2019-07-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 303017574X

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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called ‘right to offend’ is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a ‘political correctness gone mad’ that stifles ‘free speech’. Against the backdrop of these current developments, this book aims to generate a productive dialogue among scholars working in a variety of intellectual disciplines, geographical locations and methodological traditions. The contributors share a concern about the complex and ambiguous nature of offence as well as about the different ways in which this so-called ‘negative affect’ comes to matter in our everyday and socio-political lives. Through a series of instructive case studies of recent media provocations, the authors illustrate how being offended is more than an individual feeling and is, instead, closely tied to political structures and power relations.



Speech, Media and Ethics

Author : R. Cohen-Almagor

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 38,38 MB

Release : 2001-04-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780312236076

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Speech, Media, and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression is an interdisciplinary work that employs ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies to outline the boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, defined broadly to include the right to demonstrate and to picket, the right to compete in elections, and the right to communicate views via the written and electronic media. Moral principles are applied to analyze practical questions that deal with free expression and its limits.



Understanding Media Ethics

Author : David Horner

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 15,73 MB

Release : 2014-12-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1473911680

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Our new media landscape of social networking, blogging, and interactivity has forever changed how media content is produced and distributed. Choices about how to gather, evaluate and publish information are ever more complex. This blurring of boundaries between general public values and the values of media professionals has made media ethics an essential issue for media professionals, but also demonstrates how it must be intrinsically part of the wider public conversation. This book teaches students to navigate ethical questions in a digital society and apply ethical concepts and guidelines to their own practice. Using case studies, judgement call boxes and further reading, Understanding Media Ethics clarifies the moral concepts in media contexts, and enables students to apply them to practical decision making through real-life worked examples. Covering key topics such as media freedoms, censorship, privacy, standards, taste, regulation, codes of practice and the ethics of representation, this is an essential guide for students in journalism, media, communication and public relations.



Protecting Children in the Digital Era

Author : Eva Lievens

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 604 pages

File Size : 31,92 MB

Release : 2010-07-26

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004189726

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From the mid-1990s onwards concerns regarding the exposure of children to harmful content in the increasingly digital media environment intensified. Soon thereafter policy makers across Europe realised that alternative regulatory instruments, such as self- and co-regulation, might be more appropriate than traditional legislation to address this matter of public interest. Taking the complex and delicate nature of protecting minors into account, this book provides an in-depth legal analysis of the alternative regulatory instruments that can be used to regulate content in the digital era, with particular attention to the protection of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, privacy and procedural guarantees, internal market regulation, competition rules, and implementation requirements.



Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Author : Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden

Publisher : Blackstone Press

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 47,98 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Law

ISBN :

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Covers many types of public order and personal dispute situations such as industrial strikes, neighbourhood disputes, investigative reporters and bullying at work. Includes a copy of the Act.



Child Pornography

Author : Ethel Quayle

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 19,64 MB

Release : 2004-06-02

Category : Computers

ISBN : 113545292X

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This book examines the reality behind the often hysterical media coverage of child pornography, particularly that available via the internet.



The Myth of Harm

Author : Sarah Cleary

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 18,71 MB

Release : 2022-12-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1501378279

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The Myth of Harm engages and analyses controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children. The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to harm and corrupt young people and indeed society as a whole, the genre is constantly under pressure to suppress that which has made it so popular to begin with - its ability to frighten and generate discussion about society's darker side. Recognising the circularity of patterns in each generational manifestation of horror censorship, The Myth of Harm draws upon cases such as the Slenderman stabbing and the James Bulger murder amongst many others in order to explore the manner in which horror has been repeatedly cast as a harmful influence upon children at the expense of scrutinising other more complex social issues. Focusing on five major controversies beginning in the 1930's Golden Age of Horror Cinema and ending on a more contemporary note with Cyber-Gothic horror – this book identifies and considers the various myths and false hoods surrounding the genre of horror and question the very motivation behind the proliferation and dissemination of these myths as scapegoats for political and social issues, platforms for “moral entrepreneurs” and tools of hyperbolae for the news industry.