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Subject(s)

• Social psychology [Browse]
• Social problems [Browse]
• Discourse analysis [Browse]
• Subjectivity [Browse]
• Social interaction [Browse]

Summary note

In 'An Invitation to Social Construction', Kenneth Gergen charts the background to the social constructionist movement and outlines the major debates, topics and issues.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I FOUNDATIONS
• Why Media Ethics?
• Defining Media Ethics
• Morality and Legality
• Facts and Values
• Overview of the Book
• 1. Moral Judgements
• Obstacles to Moral Judgements
• Responding to Moral Scepticism
• Chapter Review
• Further Reading
• How to Use This Article
• pt. II DESIRABLE ENDS
• 2. Pleasure
• Right Action and the Public Interest
• Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Controversy
• Bentham and the Democracy of Pleasures
• Limitations of Bentham's System
• 3. Markets
• Pleasure as a Guide to Judgements about Media Content
• Murdochs' Attack
• Higher and Lower Pleasures
• 4. Liberty
• Restricting Free Speech
• Private Sphere
• Public Sphere: Freedom of Thought and Discussion
• 5. Violence
• Depictions of Violence: Arguments to Restriction
• Anatomy of the Argument from Emulation
• Dilemmas of Depiction
• 6. Pornography
• Sexuality and Pornography
• Conservative Arguments
• Liberal Arguments
• Feminist Arguments
• pt. III OBLIGATIONS
• 7. Truth
• Threats to Truthfulness
• Deontological Perspective
• Supreme Principle of Morality
• Is Lying Ever Permissible?
• 8. Images
• Authority of Images
• Subverting the Authority of Images
• Can there be Legitimate Fakery for a `Benevolent Motive'?
• 9. Stereotyping
• Stereotyping: A Moral Issue
• Logic of Stereotyping
• Immorality of Stereotyping
• Relevance of Kant's Categorical Imperative
• 10. Privacy
• Defining Privacy
• Privacy Wars
• pt. IV NEW DIRECTIONS?
• 11. Security
• WikiLeaks
• Right to Information Argument
• Public Interest Argument: Whistle-blowing
• WikiLeaks: A Puzzle Case
• 12. Digital Ethics
• Emergent Media
• Computer Ethics
• Digital Media Ethics
• Radical Alternative: Information Ethics
• 13. Wrong-Doing
• Reason and Reasons
• Blameworthiness
• Some Sources of Wrong-doing
• Conclusion: The Real and the Ideal
• How to Use This Article.

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ISBN

• 1446296482
• 9781446296486
• 1446296474
• 9781446296479
• 9781849207881 (pbk.)
• 1849207887 (pbk.)

OCLC

907881498

RCP

H - S

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