Communicating Aggression in a Megamedia World

This book describes how, in the era of megamedia culture, aggression in communication constitutes a threat to the communication community.

Autorentext

Beata Sierocka is a professor at the University of Lower Silesia. The two main fields of her research are communication philosophy and philosophical criticism. Her most important publications include Prolegomena to Philosophical Criticism, Criticism and Discourse, and the series of articles entitled Via communicandi, which develop the theory of communicative rationality.

Klappentext

This book describes how, in the era of megamedia culture, aggression in communication constitutes a threat to the communication community.

Inhalt

Introduction: Mutilated Communication Community; Part I: The World; **1. AGGRESSION; 2. The world in the chains of megamedia; 3. Aggression in the megamedia world; Part II: Communication Philosophy; 4. Communicative apriori the transcendental-pragmatic approach; 5. Mutualism, co-intentionality, trust the essential aspects of communication cooperation; 6. Rigor of discursive rationality; Part III Ethics of media communication**; 7. Public responsibility of the media; 8. Co-responsibility: Ethical foundation for the megamedia world; 9. Towards a normative media theory; Conclusion: to protect