Culture first!
Subtitle: promoting standards in the new media age
By: edited by Kenneth Dyson and Walter Homolka.
Contributors: Dyson, Kenneth H. F.; Homolka, Walter.
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Mass media and culture.; Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Mass media -- Technological innovations.; Aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Revisiting Culture and anarchy : media studies, the cultural industries and the issue of quality / Kenneth Dyson; value: Defending ourselves against the seductions of eloquence / Neil Postman; value: On the threshold of a new era in media history : what follows the period of technological innovation? / Gerhard Schulze; value: The ethics of media use : media consumption as a moral challenge / Hermann Lübbe; value: Coping with plenty : psychological aspects of television and information overload / Peter Winterhoff-Spurk; value: Regulating for cultural standards : a legal perspective / Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem; value: Nothing can replace reading / Walter Homolka; value: On being passionate about standards : promoting the voice of aesthetics in broadcasting and multimedia / Kenneth Dyson.