Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

Edited by Lee Wilkins, Clifford G. Christians

Price: $60.00

• ISBN: 978-0-8058-6192-1
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 21st July 2008
• Pages: 416

About the Book

This Handbook encapsulates the intellectual history of mass media ethics over the past twenty-five years. Chapters will serve as a summary of existing research and thinking in the field, as well as setting agenda items for future research.

Key features include:

• up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, one of the hottest topics in the media community
• 'one-stop shopping' for historical and current research in media ethics
• experienced, top-tier editors, advisory board, and contributors

It will be an essential reference on media ethics theory and research for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in media, mass communication, and journalism.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

1. A philosophically based inquiry into the nature of communicating humans

   Wayne Woodward

2. A short history of media ethics in the United States

   John P. Ferre

3. Essential shared values and 21^st Century Journalism

   Deni Elliott

4. Moral development: A psychological approach to understanding ethical judgment

   Renita Coleman and Lee Wilkins

5. The search for universals

Clifford G. Christians and Thomas W. Cooper

Part II: Professional Practice

1. Truth and objectivity

   Stephen J. A. Ward

2. Photojournalism ethics: A 21^st-Century dance of Behavior, technology and ideology

   Julianne H. Newton

3. Why diversity is an ethical issue

   Ginny Whitehouse

4. The ethics of advocacy: Moral reasoning in the practice of public relations

   Sherry Baker

5. The ethics of propaganda and the propaganda of ethics

   Jay Black

6. Perspectives on pornography demand ethical Critique

   Wendy Wyatt and Kris E. Bunton

7. Violence

   Patrick Plaisance

8. The eroding boundaries between news and entertainment and what they mean for democratic politics

   Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini

9. What can we get away with? The ethics or art and Entertainment in the neo-liberal world

Angharad N. Valdivia

Part III: Concrete Issues

1. Justice as a journalistic value and goal

   David A. Craig

2. Transparency in journalism: Menaings, merits and risks

   Stephanie Craft and Kyle Heim

3. Conflict of interest enters a new age

   Edward Wasserman

4. Digital ethics in autonomous systems

   Michael Bugeja

5. Peace journalism

   Seow Ting Lee

6. Privacy and the press

Lou Hodges

Part IV: Institutional considerations

1. Buddhist moral ethics: Intend no harm, intend to be of benefit

   S. Holly Stocking

2. Communitarianism

   Mark Fackler

3. Freedom of expression and the liberal democratic tradition

   G. Stuart Adam

4. Feminist media ethics

   Linda Steiner

5. Media ownership in a corporate age

   Matthew P. McAllister and Jennifer M. Proffitt

6. Ethical tensions in news making: What journalism has in common with other professions

   Sandra L. Borden and Peggy Bowers

7. The media in evil circumstances

   Robert S. Fortner

8. Global media ecology: Why there is no global

Media ethics standard

Mark D. Alleyne

About the Author(s)

Lee Wilkins is the editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the author and co-author of scholarly books and articles and a textbook on media ethics. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and holds the doctorate in political science from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the radio-television faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has has won Missouri’s highest teaching award, and her research focuses on how journalists make ethical decisions.

Clifford G. Christians is the Charles H. Sandage Distinguished Professor and a Research Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds joint appointments as a Professor of Journalism and a Professor of Media Studies. His academic degrees include a B.A in classical philosophy from Calvin College, a Th.M. in theology and culture from Fuller Theological Seminary, and and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Illinois. In addition to having published extensively, Christians has won five teaching awards, and his interests are in the philosophy of technology, dialogic communication theory, and media ethics.

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