The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, 2 Volume Set

by Fortner, Robert S.; Fackler, P. Mark

• ISBN13: 9781405188128
• ISBN10: 140518812X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Brings together scholars from around the world in examining 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 (again, among others) throughout many countries and regions worldwide Includes contributions by several Islamic scholars who 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

Author Biography

Robert S. Fortner is Director of the Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization serving the church, NGO and international radio community with research to assist them in meeting their missions. He is also a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He is the author of International Communication: History, Conflict and Control of the Global Metropolis (Wadsworth, 1993), Public Diplomacy and International Politics: The Symbolic Constructs of Summits and International Radio News (Praeger, 1994), Radio, Morality and Culture: Britain, Canada and the United States 1919-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), and Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He has taught at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Daystar University, Kenya, and Uganda Christian University (Mukono). Fackler is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (Longman, 7th edition, 2005) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (Oxford University Press, 1993) and has contributed and edited other several books, chapters, and papers on media, ethics, and emerging democracies in East Africa.

Table of Contents

Theoretical Foundations

Preface

Introduction

Primordial Issues in Communication Ethics

Communication Ethics: The Wonder of Metanarratives in a Postmodern Age

Information, Communication and Planetary Citizenship

Global Communication and Cultural Particularisms: The Place of Values in the Simultaneity of Structural Globalization and Cultural Fragmentation - The Case of Islamic Civilization

The Ethics of Privacy in High and Low Technology Societies

Social Responsibility Theory and Media Monopolies

Ethics and Ideology: Moving from Labels to Analysis

Fragments of Truth: The Right to Communicate as a Universal Value

Glocal Media Ethics

Classical Liberal Values

Feminist Ethics and Global Media

Words as Weapons: A History of War Reporting 1945 to the Present

Multi-Dimensional Objectivity for Global Journalism

New Media and an Old Problem: Promoting Democracy

The Dilemma of Trust

The Ethical Case for Blasphemy

The Medium is the Moral

Development Ethics: The Audacious Agenda

Indigenous Media Values: Cultural and Ethical Implications

Foucault's Challenge to Ethics

Ethical Anxieties in the Global Public Sphere

Universalism and Communitarianism in Media Ethics

Responsibility of Net Users

Media Ethics and International Organizations

Making the Case for What Can and Should Be Published

Ungrievable Lives. Global Terror and the Media

Journalism Ethics in the Moral Infrastructure of a Global Civil Society

Practices and Case Studies

Problems of Application

Disenfranchised and Disempowered: How the Globalized Media Treat Their Audiences - The Case of India

Questioning Professional Ethics in the Global Age: How Japanese Journalists Report and Support Immigrant Law Revision

Ancient Roots and Contemporary Challenges: Asian Journalists Try to Find the Balance

Understanding Bollywood

Kenyan Muslim Women in Media and Politics: Fighting for Legitimacy

Peace Communication in Sudan: Toward Infusing a New Islamic Perspective

Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Ethics of Survival: Media, Palestinians, and Israelis in Conflict

Voiceless Glasnost: Responding to Government Pressures and Lack of a Free Press Tradition in Russia

Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia: A Case Study

Collective Guilt as a Response to Evil: A Case of Arabs and Muslims in the Western Media

Journalists as Witnesses to Violence and Suffering

Reporting on Religious Authority Complicit with Atrocity

The Ethics of a Very Public Sphere: Differential Soundscapes and the Discourse of the Streets

The Ethics of Representation and the Internet

Authors, Authority, Ownership and Ethics in Digital Media and News

Ethical Implications of Blogging

Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network

Now Look at What You Made Me Do: Violence and Media Accountability

Protecting Children from Harmful Influences of Media through Formal and Non-Formal Media Education: Asbjørn Simonnes &

Ethics and International Propaganda

Modernization and Its Discontents: Ethics, Development and the Diffusion of Innovations

Communication Technologies in the Arsenal of Al Qaeda and the Taliban: Why the West Isn't Winning the War on Terror

The Hijab

Index

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