Culture First! : Promoting Standards in the New Media Age.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Revisiting Culture and Anarchy. Media Studies, the Cultural Industries and the Issue of Quality -- 'Culture and anarchy' -- The debate about quality in contemporary media studies: the problems of postmodernism -- Marxism, ideology and the Frankfurt School -- Structuralism -- Postmodernism -- The economic significance of the 'cultural industries' -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Defending Ourselves Against the Seductions of Eloquence -- The cultural price of technology -- Who benefits? -- Every technology has a philosophy -- Media wars -- The ecological nature of technological change -- Domesticating technology -- Conclusion -- Note -- 3 On the Threshold of a New Era in Media History: What Follows the Period of TechnologicalInnovation? -- Reflecting about the future -- The argument that there is no future -- The coming period of technological innovation is the last -- 'Unlimited' media -- The 'post-technological' society -- The 'experience society': its practical implications as a philosophy for our daily lives -- The malaise at the heart of the 'experience society' -- The 'powerful' institutions as objects of cultural criticism -- Loss of power by the institutions -- gain of power by the individual -- The helpless Emperor of China -- The end of the diversion from philosophy -- Is man rational? -- A morphology of irrationality -- What follows after the transition to a new era of media? -- Kirch meets Adorno -- A reassessment of the critique of commercialization -- An economic critique of the audience rating system -- Arguments against the thesis of an imperative -- Beyond media policy -- The woman on the sofa -- 4 The Ethics of Media Use: Media Consumption as a Moral Challenge -- Virtue in media use: entertainment and happiness.

Virtue in media use: news and current affairs and good citizenship -- Use of mass media as a factor of cultural differentiation -- Conclusion -- Note -- 5 Coping with Plenty: Psychological Aspects of Television and Information Overload -- Stress, strain, infarct: the individual in the information age -- From perception to cognition: the human being as an information processing system -- From selection of programme to mood management: television as processing of information -- From memory to evaluation: results of research on television news -- The competent viewer: moral standards for using the media as an alternative? -- References -- 6 Regulating for Cultural Standards: A Legal Perspective -- Mass communication in a segmented and fragmented media market -- Justification for regulation by the state -- Limits to effective regulation -- Focal points for state regulation -- Means of strengthening implementation capability -- On safeguarding the public service idea -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Nothing Can Replace Reading -- Print -- Typographic culture -- The contrast between chirographic and typographic forms: the commonplace and the index -- Isolation and individuality -- History and progress -- Mass production and applied knowledge -- Publishing and reading in the late twentieth century -- Surveys and statistics -- Literacy -- Television versus reading -- The future of print -- Information as a linguistic event -- Information versus knowledge -- The typographic word -- Final thoughts -- References -- 8 On Being Passionate about Standards:Promoting the Voice of Aesthetics in Broadcasting and Multimedia -- Aesthetic perception and aesthetic judgement -- Television as medium and art form -- Television as cultural experience -- Television as on experience of pleasure -- Television as an activity of inquiry and instruction.

Television as aesthetic experience -- From television to multimedia: the discourse about standards and the pervasiveness of politics -- The discourse about literary culture -- The discourse of science -- The discourse of economics -- The discourse of competitiveness -- The discourse about industrial structure and regulation for multimedia -- Rediscovering a passion for standards -- Shift of intellectual paradigm? -- Change of regulatory strategy? -- Redefinition of corporate strategy? 'Market takers' and 'market makers' -- References -- Index.

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