| Description |
xvi, 239 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Popular culture & everyday life ; v. 4 |
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Popular culture & everyday life.
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Popular culture & everyday life ; v. 4
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| Contents |
1. What is real? Ontology and the media. Television and virtual reality: More real than the real thing? Methodological issues: The active audience. Does the active audience think television is real? Talking about television: The reactive audience. The reactive audience and television reality. Realism and relativism -- 2. News as soap opera: Truth and news. "Illiterate boobs sitting dumbly around the TV set" The development of tabloid TV news - The case of the United States. News events are and always have been soapy. What is wrong? The news should be true. News can be criticized -- 3. Why not lie? Dicourse ethics. Why soaps? Problems of definition. The social role of soap opera. Mirada de Mujer. Ethical disputes. Discourse ethics. Party of Five: Developing a web site of ethical questions -- 4. Speaking of South Park: Media effects. Is South Park prosocial? Media memories: Cartoons and cross-referencing. Cartoons as icons. "An elephant makes love to a pig" Media effects and talking about television -- 5. Reasons to buy: The logic of advertisements. Reasoning in advertisements. A print advertisement. Fallacies and television advertisements. A case study: Images and stereotypes. Political advertising and being reasonable -- 6. Seeing reasons: Visual argumentation in advertisements. Visual literacy. Reasoning in the newer media. Simulacra - second-order signifiers - function irrationally. Emotion is irrational. Visual reasoning. The Citibank ad revisited -- 7. Public faces in private places: The public/private divide and identity. Public, not private; private, not public. Constructing the public/private divide. Personal identity. Dividing up the public private divide. New technology and globalization. The public sphere and identity, recast. Afterword: Paradoxes and popular culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-232) and index |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2001018606 |
| ISBN |
0820455555 paperback alkaline paper |
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