Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective

Author:   Stephen J.A. Ward ,  Herman Wasserman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415878883


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   13 April 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Stephen J.A. Ward ,  Herman Wasserman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780415878883


ISBN 10:   0415878888
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   13 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction: Why Global Media Ethics? Section One: Universals, Theory, and Global Ethics Chapter 1: The Ethics of Universal Being/Clifford G. Christians Chapter 2: Connecting Care and Duty: How Neuroscience and Feminist Ethics can Contribute to Understanding Professional Moral Development/Lee Wilkins Chapter 3: A Theory of Patriotism for Global Journalism/Stephen J.A. Ward Chapter 4: Media Ethics: Towards a Framework for Media Producers and Media Consumers/Nick Couldry Section Two: Global, Local, and Critical Theory Chapter 5: Media Ethics and Human Dignity in the Postcolony/Herman Wasserman Chapter 6: Postcolonial Theory and Global Media Ethics: A Theoretical Intervention/Shakuntala Rao Chapter 7: Moral Philosophy as the Foundation of Normative Media Theory: Questioning African Ubuntuism as a Framework/Pieter J. Fourie Section Three: Applications and Case Studies Chapter 8: Negotiating Journalism Ethics in Zambia: Towards a ""Global"" Ethics/Fackson Banda Chapter 9: Journalistic Ethics and Responsibility in Relations to Freedom of Expression: An Islamic Perspective/Ali Mohamed Chapter 10: Media Ethics in Ethiopia/Gebremedhin Simon"

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"""The complexity and contentiousness of developing university ethical standards is at the core of this collection, which makes the point that the discussion must, however, begin somewhere in attempting to overcome these barriers!. This collection ! [takes] the first steps toward the goal of a global media ethics."" -- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"


The complexity and contentiousness of developing university ethical standards is at the core of this collection, which makes the point that the discussion must, however, begin somewhere in attempting to overcome these barriers!. This collection ! [takes] the first steps toward the goal of a global media ethics. -- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly


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Stephen J.A. Ward is the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin in Madison. He previously was director of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. His research interests include global journalism ethics, the philosphical foundations of media ethics, and theories of objectivity. Herman Wasserman teaches media and cultural studies at Sheffield University, UK, and is associate professor extraordinary of journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a former Fulbright Scholar at Indiana University, and a former fellow of the Ethics Colloquium at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is the editor of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies and on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the Journal of African Media Studies.

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