Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, 2 Volume Set

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781118721377
  • Weight: 1452g
  • Dimensions: 168 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Nov 2013
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.
  • Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
  • Brings together leading international scholars to consider 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 throughout many countries and regions worldwide
  • Contributions by Islamic scholars 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

Robert S. Fortner is the Executive Director of the International Center for Media Studies (ICMS). He has published essays, papers and research reports for various scholarly and professional organizations, and has completed research for the Voice of America, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Central Intelligence Agency.

P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communications Studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning 8e (2008) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), among other works.