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Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics »

Authors: Catharine Lumby (Editor), Elspeth Probyn
ISBN-13: 9780521534277, ISBN-10: 0521534275
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Catharine Lumby is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Media and Communications Program, University of Sydney.

Elspeth Probyn is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, University of Sydney.

This book examines the ethical challenges posed by new media formats, technologies and audiences.

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: An Ethics of Engagement	1
2	Real Appeal: The Ethics of Reality TV	11
3	Arguing about Ethics	25
4	'Their own media in their own language'	42
	Beyond the Disconnect: Practical Ethics: Interview with Maxine McKew	67
5	A Viable Ethics: Journalists and the 'Ethnic Question'	74
6	Ethics, Entertainment and the Tabloid: The Case of Talkback Radio in Australia	87
	Money versus Ethics: Interview with Mike Carlton	100
7	Eating into Ethics: Passion, Food and Journalism	107
	Beyond Food Porn: Interview with Cherry Ripe	124
8	Ethics impossible? Advertising and the Infomercial	133
	Pitching to the 'Tribes': New Ad Techniques: Interview with Jim Moser	152
9	Diary of a Webdiarist: Ethics Goes Online	159
10	Control-SHIFT: Censorship and the Internet	173
	Representing the Asylum Seekers: Interview with Linda Jaivin	189
11	The Ethics of Porn on the Net	196
	Ethics and Sex: Interview with Fiona Patten	212
12	Grassroots Ethics: The Case of Souths versus News Corporation	216
13	Great Pretenders: Ethics and the Rise of Pranksterism	230
	The Limits of Satire: Interview with John Safran	243
	Index	249