Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis

by Roger Silverstone

Book Overview

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without a clear understanding of that significance, and without a critique of the way in which the media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745635040
• ISBN13: 9780745635040
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"