Image Ethics in the Digital Age
Over the past quarter century, dramatic technological advances in the production, manipulation, and dissemination of images have transformed the practices of journalism, entertainment, and advertising as well as the visual environment itself. From digital retouching to wholesale deception, the media world is now beset by an unprecedented range of moral, ethical, legal, and professional challenges. Image Ethics in the Digital Age brings together leading experts in the fields of journalism,...
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Over the past quarter century, dramatic technological advances in the production, manipulation, and dissemination of images have transformed the practices of journalism, entertainment, and advertising as well as the visual environment itself. From digital retouching to wholesale deception, the media world is now beset by an unprecedented range of moral, ethical, legal, and professional challenges. Image Ethics in the Digital Age brings together leading experts in the fields of journalism, media studies, and law to address these challenges and assess their implications for personal and societal values and behavior.Among the issues raised are the threat to journalistic integrity posed by visual editing software; the monopolization of image archives by a handful of corporations and its impact on copyright and fair use laws; the instantaneous electronic distribution of images of dubious provenance around the world; the erosion of privacy and civility under the onslaught of sensationalistic twenty-four-hour television news coverage and entertainment programming; and the increasingly widespread use of surveillance cameras in public spaces. This volume of original essays is vital reading for anyone concerned with the influence of the mass media in the digital age. Contributors: Howard S. Becker; Derek Bousé, Eastern Mediterranean U, Cyprus; Hart Cohen, U of Western Sydney; Jessica M. Fishman; Paul Frosh, Hebrew U of Jerusalem; Faye Ginsburg, New York U; Laura Grindstaff, U of California, Davis; Dianne Hagaman; Sheldon W. Halpern, Ohio State U; Darrell Y. Hamamoto, U of California, Davis; Marguerite Moritz, U of Colorado, Boulder; David D. Perlmutter, Louisiana State U; Dona Schwartz, U of Minnesota; Matthew Soar, Concordia University; Stephen E. Weil, Smithsonian Institution's Center for Education and Museum Studies. Larry Gross is professor and director of Annenberg School of Communication at University of Southern California. John Stuart Katz is professor of English and film studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Jay Ruby is professor of anthropology at Temple University. Together, they edited Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photography, Film, and Television (1988).
Introduction: Image Ethics in the Digital Age1The Internet: Big Pictures and Interactors12Professional Oversight: Policing the Credibility of Photojournalism273News Norms and Emotions: Pictures of Pain and Metaphors of Distress534Instant Transmission: Covering Columbine's Victims and Villains715Privacy and Spectacle: The Reversible Panopticon and Media-Saturated Society956Daytime Talk Shows: Ethics and Ordinary People on Television1157Copyright Law and the Challenge of Digital Technology1438Fair Use and the Visual Arts: Please Leave Some Room for Robin Hood1719Digital Technology and Stock Photography: And God Created Photoshop18310Computer-Generated Images: Wildlife and Natural History Films21711White and Wong: Race, Porn, and the World Wide Web24712The Advertising Photography of Richard Avedon and Sebastiao Salgado26913Indigenous Media: Negotiating Control over Images29514"Moral Copyright": Indigenous People and Contemporary Film31315Family Film: Ethical Implications for Consent327Afterword: Digital Image Ethics343Contributors351Index355
