Chouliaraki, Lilie (2008) The media as moral education: mediation and action. Media, culture & society, 30 (6). pp. 831-852. ISSN 0163-4437
Abstract
The concern with the role of media in cultivating cosmopolitan sensibilities among audiences inevitably raises questions about the textual quality of mediation and the moral power of representation: what sense of responsibility and care do media stories cultivate vis-a-vis far-away others? Can the spectacles of suffering, most common on our home screens, go beyond wishful thinking and lead to forms of public action towards these distant others?
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| Library of Congress subject classification: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Sets: | Departments > Media and Communications Research centres and groups > POLIS |
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| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22946/ |
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