The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

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Robert S. Fortner, P. Mark Fackler
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 21, 2011 - Social Science - 1040 pages
This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. Both theoretical and practical, this important volume will raise the ethical bar for both scholars and practitioners in the world of global communication and media.
  • Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
  • Brings together leading international scholars to consider ethical issues raised by globalization, the practice of journalism, popular culture, and media activities
  • Examines important themes in communication ethics, including feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and "glocalism", among many others
  • Contains case studies on reporting, censorship, responsibility, terrorism, disenfranchisement, and guilt throughout many countries and regions worldwide
  • Contributions by Islamic scholars discuss various facets of that religion's engagement with the public sphere, and others who deal with some of the religious and cultural factors that bedevil efforts to understand our world
 

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Contents

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Global Communication and Cultural Particularisms
Fragments of Truth
The Right to Communication as a Universal Value
Glocal Media Ethics
American Empire
Multidimensional Objectivity for Global Journalism
Making the Case for What Can and Should
Ungrievable Lives
Disenfranchised and Disempowered
Questioning Journalism Ethics in the Global
Peace Communication in Sudan
Media and PostElection Violence in Kenya
Ethics of Survival
Voiceless Glasnost

Communication Ethics
Indigenous Media Values
Cultures
Media Ethics as Panoptic Discourse
Ethical Anxieties in the Global Public Sphere
Universalism versus Communitarianism in Media
Media Ethics and International Organizations
The UNESCO Mass Media Declaration
Selfregulation
Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia
Collective Guilt as a Response to Evil
Reporting on Religious Authority Complicit with
The Ethics of Representation and the Internet
Ethical Implications of Blogging
Implications
Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network
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About the author (2011)

Robert S. Fortner is the Executive Director of the International Center for Media Studies (ICMS). He has published essays, papers and research reports for various scholarly and professional organizations, and has completed research for the Voice of America, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Central Intelligence Agency.

P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communications Studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning 8e (2008) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), among other works.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Handbooks in Communication and Media
EditorsRobert S. Fortner, P. Mark Fackler
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444390619, 9781444390612
Length1040 pages
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