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Title: The Real Thing

The Real Thing

Doing Philosophy with Media

by Christina Slade (Author)
©2002 Textbook 262 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Volume 4

Summary

Television has been demonized as the cause of the moral decay of our society. Its content is derided as vapid. However, what we watch on television is often philosophically complex. This book examines news, cartoons such as South Park, advertisements, and soap operas and identifies complex moral dilemmas and arguments in them. It argues that we should apply analytical and philosophical skills directly to what we watch and shows how it can be done. In the final chapter, the way in which the news has been overtaken by the private lives of public figures is traced to a breakdown of the public-private divide.

Details

Pages
262
Year
2002
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820455556
Language
English
Keywords
moral decay news cartoons
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. 262 pp.

Biographical notes

Christina Slade (Author)

The Author: Christina Slade is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Canberra, and Head of the School of Creative Communication and Culture Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Australian National University, was a Harkness fellow at New York University, and has been a visiting fellow at the Université de Québec à Montréal, at La Universidad Ibero Americana, and at the ITESM in Mexico City. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Critical Communication (with Glen Lewis).

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