Ethics and Entertainment

Download or read book Ethics and Entertainment written by Howard Good and published by McFarland Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern media shifts from the distribution of information to the creation of entertainment, a fresh inquiry into the ethics of media becomes vital. This collection of 19 essays provides useful guidelines and perspectives for the producers and consumers of entertainment. Topics covered include the contemporary creation of celebrity, the effects of entertainment on children, the hybridization of entertainment and news, author and intellectual property rights, and the role of human dignity in modern media, among many others. The essays question the nature and ethics of media entertainment as it becomes increasingly pervasive in our time.