The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

Edited by Lee Wilkins, Clifford G. Christians

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About the Book

This Handbook encapsulates the intellectual history of mass media ethics over the past twenty-five years. Chapters serve as a summary of existing research and thinking in the field, as well as setting agenda items for future research.

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It will be an essential reference on media ethics theory and research for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in media, mass communication, and journalism.

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Received the 2009 Best Edited Book Award from the Communication Ethics Division of the National Communication Association

'Each essay provides a comprehensive examination of its topic and includes extensive notes and references... This book will be an important resource for those involved in the study of mass media... Highly recommended.' - CHOICE

'When two ethics powerhouses get together and edit a volume on mass media ethics, you expect an impressive collection of notable research. This volume does not disappoint.' - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

'The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics is a valuable resource for anyone teaching the Ethics of Journalism and (time permitting) for practitioners of journalism' - AllmediaScotland.com.

'Consisting of almost 30 chapters categorised into four sections - which look at ethical foundations, professional practice. concrete issues and institutional considerations, teachers of the subject are almost guaranteed to find something of use for aspiring journalists and media professionals to agonize over.' - AllmediaScotland.com.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

  1. A philosophically based inquiry into the nature of communicating humans

    Wayne Woodward

  2. A short history of media ethics in the United States

    John P. Ferre

  3. Essential shared values and 21st Century Journalism

    Deni Elliott

  4. Moral development: A psychological approach to understanding ethical judgment

    Renita Coleman and Lee Wilkins

  5. The search for universals

Clifford G. Christians and Thomas W. Cooper

Part II: Professional Practice

    1. Truth and objectivity

      Stephen J. A. Ward

    2. Photojournalism ethics: A 21st-Century dance of Behavior, technology and ideology

      Julianne H. Newton

    3. Why diversity is an ethical issue

      Ginny Whitehouse

    4. The ethics of advocacy: Moral reasoning in the practice of public relations

      Sherry Baker

    5. The ethics of propaganda and the propaganda of ethics

      Jay Black

    6. Perspectives on pornography demand ethical Critique

      Wendy Wyatt and Kris E. Bunton

    7. Violence

      Patrick Plaisance

    8. The eroding boundaries between news and entertainment and what they mean for democratic politics

      Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini

    9. What can we get away with? The ethics or art and Entertainment in the neo-liberal world

Angharad N. Valdivia

Part III: Concrete Issues

    1. Justice as a journalistic value and goal

      David A. Craig

    2. Transparency in journalism: Menaings, merits and risks

      Stephanie Craft and Kyle Heim

    3. Conflict of interest enters a new age

      Edward Wasserman

    4. Digital ethics in autonomous systems

      Michael Bugeja

    5. Peace journalism

      Seow Ting Lee

    6. Privacy and the press

Lou Hodges

Part IV: Institutional considerations

    1. Buddhist moral ethics: Intend no harm, intend to be of benefit

      S. Holly Stocking

    2. Communitarianism

      Mark Fackler

    3. Freedom of expression and the liberal democratic tradition

      G. Stuart Adam

    4. Feminist media ethics

      Linda Steiner

    5. Media ownership in a corporate age

      Matthew P. McAllister and Jennifer M. Proffitt

    6. Ethical tensions in news making: What journalism has in common with other professions

      Sandra L. Borden and Peggy Bowers

    7. The media in evil circumstances

      Robert S. Fortner

    8. Global media ecology: Why there is no global

Media ethics standard

Mark D. Alleyne

About the Author(s)

Lee Wilkins is the editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the author and co-author of scholarly books and articles and a textbook on media ethics. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and holds the doctorate in political science from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the radio-television faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has has won Missouri’s highest teaching award, and her research focuses on how journalists make ethical decisions.

Clifford G. Christians is the Charles H. Sandage Distinguished Professor and a Research Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds joint appointments as a Professor of Journalism and a Professor of Media Studies. His academic degrees include a B.A in classical philosophy from Calvin College, a Th.M. in theology and culture from Fuller Theological Seminary, and and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Illinois. In addition to having published extensively, Christians has won five teaching awards, and his interests are in the philosophy of technology, dialogic communication theory, and media ethics.