Media and morality : on the rise of the mediapolis
Roger Silverstone
- Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2007.
- vii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.
Morality and media -- Mediapolis or the space of appearance -- The rhetoric of evil -- Contrapuntal cultures -- The mediapolis and everyday life -- Hospitality and justice -- Regulation and literacy.
Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of that significance, and without a critique of the way in which the media go about their daily business, we are likely to see an erosion in the capacity of human beings to understand and respect each other, especially those whom they see and hear only in their mediation.