| Description |
1 online resource (403 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I -- Foundations and Framework; Chapter 1 -- The Ethics of Being in a Communications Context; Chapter 2 -- The Moral Dimension of Communicating; Chapter 3 -- Discourse Ethics and its Relevance for Communication and Media Ethics; Chapter 4 -- Universal Values and Moral Development Theories; Part II -- Protonorms across Cultures; Chapter 5 -- The Basic Norm of Truthfulness: Its Ethical Justification and Universality; Chapter 6 -- The Arab-Islamic Heritage in Communication Ethics; Chapter 7 -- Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India |
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Chapter 8 -- Communication Ethics in a Latin American ContextChapter 9 -- Communalistic Societies: Community and Self-Respect as African Values; Chapter 10 -- Emergent Values from American Indian Discourse; Part III -- Applications; Chapter 11 -- Communications, Hope, and Ethics; Chapter 12 -- Communication Ethics in a Changing Chinese Society: The Case of Taiwan; Chapter 13 -- Japanese-Style Communication in a New Global Age; Chapter 14 -- Vagaries of Time and Place: Media Ethics in Poland; Chapter 15 -- Accepting the other: On the Ethics of Intercultural Communication in Ethnographic Film |
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Chapter 16 -- Women, Welfare, and the United States MediaConclusion: An Ethics of Communication Worthy of Human beings; Suggested Reading; Index; About the Contributors |
| 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 med |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Communication -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Communication -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Traber, Dr. Michael
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| ISBN |
9781452249223 |
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1452249229 |
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