Poverty of Television - The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Poverty of Television; 1. The Moral Turn: From First Principles to Lay Moralities; 2. Theorizing Mediated Suffering: Ethics of Media Texts, Audiences and Ecologies; 3. Audience Ethics: Mediating Suffering in Everyday Life; 4. Entertainment: Playing with Pity; 5. News: Recognizing Calls to Action; Conclusions: Mediating Suffering, Dividing Class; Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jonathan Corpus Ong is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Corpus Ong, Ong Jonathan Corpus
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781783087006
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-700-6
• Seiten: 226
• Serien: Anthem Global Media and Commun; Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies; Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philippines, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society