Product Description: Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can be promoted within the industry...read more

Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this book examines key issues in the history, structures, uses and politics of the Internet. The text combines insightful analysis, approachable language and helpful examples to make theoretical debate accessible to all students of Media and Communication Studies.