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Media Corruption in the Age of Information

Part of the Library of Public Policy and Public Administration Book Series (volume 15)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61612-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-61611-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 22, 2021

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Chapter 1Introduction

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 1 –15

[The aim of this book is to introduce the topic of media corruption. The topic of media corruption is important in the age of information in which we now live and most of our daily activities including work, shopping, travel, banking, communication, learning and teaching, and play, are conducted...
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Chapter 2The Tree of Knowledge: The Normative Structure of Information

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 17 –35

[This chapter explains that a normative evaluation of digital information on the internet necessitates an evaluative media model that is universal and global in character and application. This chapter will show that information has a dual normative structure that commits all disseminators of...
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Chapter 3The Serpent’s Lair – Characteristics, Causes and Contexts of Corruption

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 37 –61

[This chapter will provide a general philosophical account of corruption that applies to all forms of corruption, such as political, financial, police corruption, sports corruption, among others, and media corruption, which is the main topic of this book. It demonstrates why such practices are...
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Chapter 4Media Corruption – Types, Causes and Contexts

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 63 –91

[This chapter will identify and examine the presence of corruption as it is manifested, specifically in the media. As in the case of the general account of corruption examined in Chap. 3, this chapter will also examine media corruption by reference to Plato’s Myth of Gyges (The Republic, Plato....
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Chapter 5Tech Media Corruption in the Age of Information

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 93 –122

[Choosing Facebook as the specific example of what is referred to in this chapter as the 6thEstate in order to distinguish it conceptually from the fourth and fifth Estates, the primary objective of the first part of the chapter is to examine if digital information created, disseminated, and...
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Chapter 6Investigative Journalism – The Serum Against the Snake’s Bite

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 123 –139

[We know of the key cases of media corruption and generally of corruption referred to in this book, because they were first exposed and reported through the media, and specifically investigative journalists working in conjunction with whistleblowers and citizen journalists. Using the metaphorical...
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Chapter 7Public Policy and Regulative Change to Combat Media Corruption

Spence, Edward H.

Pages: 141 –162

[This chapter will examine the systemic changes in policy and legislation as well as issues of self-regulation and government regulation needed in combating corruption and media corruption and specifically in the Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Google, as well as explore anti-corruption...

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