{"product_id":"media-markets-and-morals-isbn-9781405175470","title":"Media, Markets, and Morals","description":"\u003ci\u003eMedia, Markets, and Morals\u003c\/i\u003e provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can be promoted within the industry.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together experts in the fields of media studies and media ethics, information ethics, and professional ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilds upon and further develops an innovative theoretical model for examining and evaluating media corruption and methods of media anti-corruption previously developed by authors Spence and Quinn\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscloses and clarifies the inherent ethical nature of information and its communication to which the media as providers of information are necessarily committed\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments.  \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Information Ethics as a Guide for the Media: Old Tricks for New Dogs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Business of the Media and the Business of the Market.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Professionalism in Behavior and Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A Conflict of Media Roles: Advertising, Public Relations, and Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Corruption in the Media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Two Dimensions of Photo Manipulation: Correction and Corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Promoting, Codifying, and Regulating Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Moral Excellence and Role Models in the Media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDr Edward Spence\u003c\/b\u003e, Lecturer in Moral Philosophy and Professional Ethics including Media Ethics, Advertising Ethics, Police Ethics, and the Ethics of Fraud Investigation. Spence is also the University’s Course Coordinator of Ethics and Legal Studies, a full-fee paying postgraduate course at certificate, diploma and masters level. The number of students taking Spence’s subjects and courses is approximately 300 to 400 students per annum, 200 of which are undertaking subjects in communication ethics. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpence\u003c\/b\u003e is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) Canberra, ACT. CAPPE is an Australian Research Council funded special commonwealth centre of excellence hosted jointly by Charles Sturt University, University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Alexandra\u003c\/b\u003e holds a joint position as Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department, and Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely, including in such international journals as \u003ci\u003eHistory of Philosophy Quarterly, Social Theory and Practice, Professional Ethics, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Ethics and Information Technology,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgriculture and Human Values.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the co-author of the books \u003ci\u003ePolice Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (Allen and Unwin, 1997; 2nd ed. 2004) the standard text on the topic in Australia, and \u003ci\u003eReasons, Values and Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e (Tertiary Press, 2002). He is editor of the \u003ci\u003eAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, the journal of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eANNE DUNN was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Sydney in July 2001, the second fulltime academic appointment in the new BA Media \u0026amp; Communication, established in 2000. Prior to this appointment Anne had taught journalism at the University of Western Sydney and media production and online media at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne has spent more than 20 years working as a presenter, media researcher, journalist, producer and director, for commercial television, for SBS and for the ABC. Her work includes award-winning television and film documentaries. She moved into management at ABC Radio in the early 90s; her roles there included senior Policy Adviser and Radio National Business Manager. She has run her own media research and consultancy business.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne’s PhD was on policy and audiences in ABC Radio News. Her research interests are public broadcasting, audiences, the introduction of new media, and broadcast journalism education. Anne’s teaching experience has been in media and journalistic writing, radio and video journalism, production and broadcasting, online media production, and media law and ethics. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and holds a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe has recently acted as Director of the Media and Communications program for 12 months, and was responsible for setting up the first postgraduate coursework program in Media and Communications. Her postgraduate research students are completing dissertations in intergenerational digital communication, the geography of newsrooms, and relationships between presentation styles and audiences in regional youth radio, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e  The primary aim of the book is to explore and critically analyse and evaluate the ways in which the business of running large national and international media organisations in a free market economy affects, for better or worse, the integrity of the communication of information to the public. Insofar as information can be defined as “instructive knowledge” which must meet the traditional conditions of truth, justification and belief, the selling of information as another consumer product on the market may in some circumstances be both epistemologically and ethically problematic. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of the main objectives of the book is to enquire into and analyse how and in what ways, if at all, the commercial and market interests of media organisations, especially as concerns news, may be undermining and in some instances corrupting both the process and the product of the communication of information to the public.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the factors that will be investigated as possibly affecting the integrity of information communicated to the public by the media are convergence of the mediums of communication and the related issue of cross-media ownership, concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few powerful moguls, such as for example, Rupert Murdoch and Berlusconi, and the perceived ‘unholy’ alliance between journalism on the one hand and advertising and public relations on the other.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA close conceptual analysis of the notions of information and persuasion will be conducted to determine some of the theoretical and practical inherent inconsistencies that may underlie those two concepts and how those inconsistencies are manifested in media practice. Moreover, the book will investigate how these inherent inconsistencies when allowed to covertly undermine the integrity of media communication may constitute the corruption of communication. Infomercials and advertorials, product placements within news content may count as instances of such corruption.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother objective of the book is to enquire into how, if at all, the aims and methods of business markets generally and media markets specifically can be reconciled with the media’s aims and methods of communicating information on matters of public interest. Can the fourth estate be trusted to tell people the truth all the time or even some of the time? Should the public adopt a more sceptical attitude towards the media?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally another objective is to examine the concept and practice of self-regulation and whether it provides effective ethical if not legal regulation over the media. If the market constrains on the media are such that the media’s ability to communicate information to the public comes under question, then more regulation of the media may be required. Opposed to that suggestion, considerations of censorship come into play. Theoretically, however, insofar as the media’s freedom of communication of information to the public is based on the public’s right to receive such information, then the media’s freedom is constrained and overridden by the public interest. And the argument can be put forward that the public interest opposes information that is tainted by commercial and other interests that are not in the public interest with regard to an informed citizenry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book will include relevant cases in each chapter that will illustrate and contextualise the issues examined within a practical and professional setting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditionally, the book will, in some of the chapters, include interviews with leading media practitioners that will elicit their views on the issues examined.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is a wonderful book. It moves effortlessly between theory and practice. The boxed cases are sharp and to the point. 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