Fortner / Fackler The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9061-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1040 Seiten, E-Book

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fortner, Robert S.

Fackler, P. Mark

Über Autor(innen)

Robert S. Fortner is the Executive Director of theInternational Center for Media Studies (ICMS). He has publishedessays, papers and research reports for various scholarly andprofessional organizations, and has completed research for theVoice of America, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Centerfor Strategic and International Studies and the CentralIntelligence Agency.
P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communications Studies atCalvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is co-author ofMedia Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning 8e (2008) andGood News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), among otherworks.