* Why do the reports and representations of suffering and misery move us? * What are we likely to do about it and why? * Why do people take part in telethon appeals? Most of us have watched television or read newspapers and been moved to compassion by the suffering and misery that we see. We know that many people suffer thanks to war, famine or environmental catastrophe. But what do the reports and representations of the suffering and misery of others actually mean to media users? Compassion, Morality and the Media seeks to answer this question and offers an engaging narrative through which it becomes possible to think about the role of journalists as moral agents. The author explores the tensions between the intentions of journalists, the horizons of the audience and the priorities of media institutions. This is a book which deals with important issues that have been relatively neglected in the academic study of the media. It is accessible and relevant and opens up a new terrain for research and teaching on the media as a moral force. Students taking undergraduate courses on the media and others with a wider interest in media morality will find it to be compelling reading.

Compassion, Morality And The Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies (Paperback))

Humor & Entertainment

Tester

Movies

Open University Press

"Civil Society" discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. Keith Tester argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which at once was the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the world. Tester identifies the origins of civil society in the work of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and the often forgotten philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. It shows how the assumptions of civil society and its oppressive state of nature, fed into the sociological and philosophical discourses which emerged in the 19th century. Tester does not ask "what is civil society?". Instead he asks "why is civil society?". He concludes that through civil society, the protaganists and heirs of European modernity struggled to make their world meaningful and safe. Civil society involved the establishment of boundaries between the community and the social and the terrifying milieu of Nature.

Civil Society Cl/ Tester

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Other

A day of surprises

A Day of Surprises

Children's Books

Childs World Inc

"A must-have resource packed with effective strategies and activities to help beginning readers develop sound-symbol relationships in a meaningful context. With focus on blends and digraphs, students learn word-attack strategies for approaching unknown wor"

Phonics in Context: Strategies for Developing Sound-Symbol Relationships: Grades K-2: Teacher Resource

Bronwyn

Horoch

Good Year Books

Learning to Live: A Selection of Writing

Psychic Press Ltd.

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