Communication Ethics and Universal Values

by Clifford G. Christians

• ISBN13: 9780761905851
• ISBN10: 0761905855
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-28
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values.The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend the possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity. Through an examination of the values in which their cultures are grounded, they provide a short list of ethical principles which form the common ground from which to view contemporary issues in the media, interpersonal communication, mediation and conflict resolution.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK - Clifford Christians

The Problem of Universals in Communication Ethics - Antonio Pasquali

The Moral Dimension of Communicating - Edmund Arens

Discourse Ethics and Its Relevance for Communication and Media Ethics - Deni Elliott

Universal Values and Moral Development Theories

PART TWO: PROTONORMS ACROSS CULTURES - Dietmar Mieth

The Basic Norm of Truthfulness

Its Ethical Justification and Universality - Muhammad I Ayish and Haydar Badawi Sadig

The Arab-Islamic Heritage in Communication Ethics - Anantha Sudhaker Babbili

Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India - Gabriel Jaime Perez

Three Axiological Proposals for Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context - Andrew A Moemeka

Communalistic Societies

Community and Self-Respect as African Values - Cynthia-Lou Coleman

Emergent Values from American Indian Discourse

PART THREE: APPLICATIONS - Pedro Gomes

Communication, Hope and Ethics - Georgette Wang

Communication Ethics in a Changing Chinese Society

The Case of Taiwan - Hideo Takeichi

Japanese Style Communication in a New Global Age - Karol Jakubowicz

Vagaries of Time and Place

Media Ethics in Poland - Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson

Accepting the Other

On the Ethics of Intercultural Communication in Ethnographic Film - Robin Andersen

Women, Welfare and the United States Media

CONCLUSION - Michael Traber

An Ethics of Communication Worthy of Human Beings