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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.
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Images
It is frequently asserted that we live in a visual age. One commonly held view maintains that ‘one picture is worth a thousand words’ and a privileged status is frequently attributed to images as evidence. This chapter explores the ethics of truth-telling in media imagery. In the previous chapter we were concerned with the morality of truth-telling through what we may say or write and publish. This chapter extends the discussion about the morality of truth-telling to visual imagery. There are good reasons to concentrate on this aspect of media imagery. Firstly, visual images are deemed to have a particular authority in the representation of reality, a particular property of literally showing the truth. Is this really the case? Secondly, we are in ...
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