Phototruth or photofiction? Ethics and media imagery in the digital age.

Chapters:
I A HISTORY OF "PHOTOTRUTH"
1. "A Picture of Reality": Qualified Objectivity in Visual Journalism ;
2. Old-Fashioned Fakery: Photo Manipulation in the Pre-Digital Era ;
II IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW DIGITAL AGE
3. The Digital Media Landscape: Liquid Imagery, Shaky Credibility ;
4. The New Threat: Digital Deception and the Loss of Faith ;
5. Rationales and Excuses: Justifying Staged and Manipulated Photos ;
III GROUNDWORK: TOWARD A PROTOCOL
6. Ethical Foundations: Doing the Right Thing ;
7. Taking Journalistic Photographs: Traditions and Techniques ;
8. Processing Journalistic Photographs: Keeping It Real ;
9. Publishing Journalistic Photographs: Context and Viewer Preconceptions ;
IV DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL
10. The "Nonfiction Photographic Environment". A Range of Implied Authenticity ;
11. Introducing the Reader's "Qualified Expectation of Reality": The Quote Standard
12 Previewing the Guidelines for Photo Assessment: Defining "Photofiction" ;
13. Photofiction Tests 1 and 2: The Viewfinder and Nonfiction Photography's Process Tests ;
14. Photofiction Tests 3 and 4: The Technical Credibility and Obvious Implausibility Tests ;
15. The Wording of a Disclosure ;
16. The Prominence of a Disclosure; Test 5: The "Essence of the Image" ;
17. Cosmetic Retouching: Skin Deep? ;
18. Applying the Guidelines: Case Studies ;
19. Journalistic Photography Online: A Possible Future ;
20. A Fragile Fortress of Credibility ;
Name Index ;
Subject Index.