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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Corpus Ong, Ong Jonathan Corpus
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781783087006
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-700-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Anthem Global Media and Commun; Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies; Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philippines, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society