The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

Jonathan Corpus Ong

Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. The book aims to contribute to the broader project of de-Westernizing media studies and explore the tension between ethical prescription and anthropological description in the social sciences and humanities.

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The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Tables
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction: The Poverty of Television
pp 1-14

1 - The Moral Turn: From First Principles to Lay Moralities
pp 15-38

2 - Theorizing Mediated Suffering: Ethics of Media Texts, Audiences and Ecologies
pp 39-60

3 - Audience Ethics: Mediating Suffering in Everyday Life
pp 61-88

4 - Entertainment: Playing with Pity
pp 89-118

5 - News: Recognizing Calls to Action
pp 119-152

Conclusions: Mediating Suffering, Dividing Class
pp 153-176

Appendix
pp 177-186

Notes
pp 187-192

References
pp 193-210

Index
pp 211-215

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