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[Commlist] new book: The Ethics of Photojournalism in the Digital Age

Tue Feb 11 20:38:20 GMT 2020






Book Announcement

*The Ethics of Photojournalism in the Digital Era

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By Miguel F. Santos Silva (Ramon Llull University) and

Scott A. Eldridge II (University of Groningen)

London/New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-1-13-858630-7

*About the Book*


Delving into the complexities of contemporary reportage, this book draws from moral philosophy and histories of photojournalism to understand the emergence of this distinct practice and discuss its evolution in a digital era.

In arguing that the digitization of photography obliges us to radically challenge some of the traditional conceptions of press photography, this book addresses the historic opposition between artistic and journalistic photographs, showing and challenging how this has subtly inspired support for a forensic approach to photojournalism ethics. The book situates this debate within questions of relativism over what is ‘moral’, and normative debates over what is ‘journalistic’, alongside technical debates as to what is ‘possible’, to underpin a discussion of photojournalism as an ethical, moral, and societally important journalistic practice. Including detailed comparative analyses of codes of ethics, examination of controversial cases, and a study of photojournalism ethics as applied in different newsrooms, the book examines how ethical principles are applied by the global news media and explores the potential for constructive dialogue between different voices interested in pursuing the best version of photojournalism.

A targeted, comprehensive and engaging book, this is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students of photojournalism, as well as philosophy, communications and media studies more broadly.

*Table of Contents: *

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: General Ethics and Applied Ethics

Chapter 3: Journalism Ethics and Photojournalism Ethics

Chapter 4: Origins of Photojournalism Ethics

Chapter 5: Digital Era and Analogue Conventions

Chapter 6: Phenomenology and the Representation of the Other

Chapter 7: The Distant Other

Chapter 8: Improper Distance: The "Refugee Crisis" presented by two newsrooms

Chapter 9: Conclusions: Going forward, ethically


For more details please visit:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-Photojournalism-in-the-Digital-Age-1st-Edition/Santos-Silva-Eldridge-II/p/book/9781138586307



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