Media and the Ethics of Recognition
In this talk, Nick Couldry will consider what can be learned for media analysis from work on the ethics of recognition (Honneth's work in social theory and Ricoeur's work in ethics). His discussion will draw on his previous work on media ethics and on media rituals, and also address specific topics, including the question, can there, and should there, be an ethics of reality TV?
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, for the fall semester of 2008. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain World (Paradigm Books, USA, 2006) and (with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham) Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
This event is hosted by the Center for the Study of Communication, of the Department of Communication.