Media and Values
Intimate Transgressions in a Changing Moral and Cultural Landscape
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“There are great riches here: from the interviews with senior media executives . . . to the discussion of popular television culture's celebration of celebrity.”
“This profoundly original and learned book creatively illuminates citizens’ moral reasoning about the media, culture, and government. A tour de force of nuanced interdisciplinary scholarship, Media & Values offers wide-ranging insights into the responsibilities of the communication industry, the justifications and consequences of telecoms regulation—and the nature of the good society itself.”
“This is a very important book—a ‘must read.’ The intellectual scope is astonishing: the problem it addresses is quite crucial—namely the moral incoherence of the contemporary world and the way that this shows up in empirical research into individual attitudes/opinions/tastes/judgements. It is clearly a cumulative critical reassessment of the implications of research going back to the sixties. It’s original, powerful, thoughtful and spot-on as a diagnosis of the times and the very real issues we confront today. A major piece of work.”
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
The Philosophical Underpinnings
1 The Need for a Moral Language
PART ONE
The Historical Context: The Moral Void
2 The Question of Regulation: The Absence of a Moral Language
Cultural Contestation
3 Culture in Practice
Moral Decline and the Rights of the Individual
4a What Constitutes Social and Anti-Social Behaviour? View of Authority—Voices from Focus Groups
4b What Constitutes Social and Anti-Social Behaviour? Views of Authority—Voices from Surveys
PART TWO
The Transgression of Privacy
5 Privacy and the Construction of Self
Interviewing the Industry
1 The Problem of Privacy
The Public and the Private: The Self-Monitoring of Behaviour
2 Clarifying the Conceptual Problems
The Idea of Privacy
8a What are the Limits of the Private? Voices from Focus Groups
8b What are the Limits of the Private? Voices from Surveys
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
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