The Handbook of Communication Ethics

by Cheney; George

• ISBN13: 9780415994651
• ISBN10: 0415994659
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This handbook bridges "explicit" treatments of ethical issues in communication and "implicit" considerations of ethics, putting under one umbrella analyses and applications that draw upon recognized ethical theories and those which, while they do not cite traditional ethical theorists, nevertheless engage important questions of power, equality, and justice. The collection has three major sections: resources for theoretical understanding and insight; application to specialties of communication study; and contemporary issues of social and economic justice. The Handbook fills an important niche in the literature of communication studies, through consolidating knowledge about the multiple relationships between communication and ethics, by systematically treating areas of application, and by "introducing" explicit and implicit examinations of communication ethics to one another.This volume is developed to be the most comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics available. It is primarily intended for scholars in communication and related disciplines, who will use the Handbook as a resource for their research; instructors who will use the Handbook as a main point of reference in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses in communication and ethics; and university libraries that want a comprehensive resource for research in the study of communication and ethics. Scholars in other fields where applied ethics holds interest will also benefit from this volume.

Author Biography

George Cheney (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1985) is the John T. Jones Centennial Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he held faculty appointments at the Universities of Illinois, Colorado, Montana, and Utah. Also, he serves as Adjunct Professor of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He has (co-)authored or (co-)edited seven other books as well as 90 articles, chapters, and commentaries. He is a past chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association; has been recognized for instruction, scholarship, and service; and maintains a strong commitment to community engagement. Steve May (Ph.D., University of Utah, 1993) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include The Debate Over Corporate Social Responsibility (with George Cheney and Juliet Roper), Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices and Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives (with Dennis Mumby). He is a Leadership Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and the Humanities and an Ethics Fellow at the Parr Center for Ethics. He was recently named a Houle Engaged Scholar by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Page Legacy Scholar by Pennsylvania State University. He is a past editor of Management Communication Quarterly and associate editor of The Journal of Applied Communication Research and The Journal of Business Communication. Debashish Munshi (Ph.D., University of Waikato, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He is co-author of Reconfiguring Public Relations: Ecology, Equity, and Enterprise and co-editor of On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions. His work has also been published in a range of international journals including Management Communication Quarterly, New Media Society, Business Communication Quarterly, Cultural Politics, Public Relations Review, Feminist Media Studies, Review of Communication, and Futures.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Author Biographies	p. xxi
Encountering Communication Ethics in the Contemporary World: Principles, People, and Contexts	p. 1
Theory Old and New
A Contribution to Ethical Theory and Praxis	p. 15
Ethics, Rhetoric, and Discourse	p. 31
Situating a Dialogic Ethics: A Dialogic Confession	p. 45
Feminist Discursive Ethics	p. 64
Power and Ethics	p. 84
What Are We, Then? Postmodernism, Globalization, and the Meta-Ethics of Contemporary Communication	p. 99
Decolonizing Communication Ethics: A Framework for Communicating Otherwise	p. 119
Contexts of Application and Theory Development
Interpersonal Communication Ethics	p. 135
Ethical Challenges in Small Group Communication	p. 148
Communication Ethics and Organizational Contexts: Divergent Values and Moral Puzzles	p. 166
Journalism Ethics in Theory and Practice	p. 190
Ethical Dimensions of New Technology/Media	p. 204
Public Relations and Marketing: Ethical Issues and Professional Practice in Society	p. 221
Visual Communication in Traditional and Digital Contexts	p. 241
The Search for Social Justice and the Presumption of Innocence in the Duke University (USA) Lacrosse Case of 2006-2007: Implications for Contemporary Legal and Ethical Communication	p. 258
Political Communication Ethics: Postmodern Opportunities and Challenges	p. 273
Ethics in Health Communication	p. 293
Science, Democracy, and the Prospect for Deliberation	p. 309
Intercultural Communication Ethics: Multiple Layered Issues	p. 335
Contemporary Issues
Diversity, Identity, and Multiculturalism in the Media: The Case of Muslims in the British Press	p. 355
Hierarchies of Equality: Positive Peace in a Democratic Idiom	p. 374
Democracy, Publicness, and Global Governance	p. 387
Religion, State, and Secularism: How Should States Deal with Deep Religious Diversity?	p. 401
Truth, Evils, Justice, and the Event of Wild(er)ness: Using Badiou to Think the Ethics of Environmentalism	p. 414
Economic Justice and Communication Ethics: Considering Multiple Points of Intersection	p. 436
The Polyphony of Corporate Social Responsibility: Deconstructing Accountability and Transparency in the Context of Identity and Hypocrisy	p. 457
When Unreason Masquerades as Reason: Can Law Regulate Trade and Networked Communication Ethically?	p. 475
Response and Conclusion: A Vision of Applied Ethics for Communication Studies	p. 494
Index	p. 517
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