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

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Corpus Ong is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester! UK. Klappentext 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

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Corpus Ong, Ong Jonathan Corpus
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9781783084067
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-406-7
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philippines, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society