2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social science.
This second edition offers up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, including the ethics of sources, social media, the roots of law in ethics, and documentary film. The wide range of contributors include scholars and former professionals who worked as journalists, public relations professionals, and advertising practitioners. They lay out both a good grounding from which to begin more in-depth and individualized explorations, and extensive bibliographies for each chapter to aid that process.
For students and professionals who seek to understand and do the best work possible, this book will provide both insight and direction. Standing apart in its comprehensive coverage, The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics is required reading for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in media, mass communication, journalism, ethics, and related areas.
Contributors
Introduction
Lee Wilkins and Clifford G. Christians
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 Ferré
3. Essential Shared Values and 21st Century Journalism
Deni Elliott
4. Moral Development: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Moral Decision-Making
Renita Coleman and Lee Wilkins
5. On the Unfortunate Divide Between Media Ethics and Media Law
Theodore L. Glasser and Morgan N. Weiland
6. The Search for Universals
Thomas W. Cooper and Clifford G. Christians
7. Justice in Media Ethics
Shakuntala Rao
PART II: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
8. Truth and Objectivity
Stephen J. A. Ward
9. Photojournalism Ethics: A 21st Century Primal Dance of Behavior, Technology, and Ideology
Julianne H. Newton
10. Why Diversity Is an Ethical Issue
Ginny Whitehouse
11. The Ethics of Advocacy: Moral Reasoning in the Practice of Public Relations
Sherry Baker
12. The Ethics of Propaganda and the Propaganda of Ethics
Jay Black
13. Exploring Latin American Advertising Ethics: Legislation and Self-Regulation
Salvador Raymundo Victor
14. Serious Moral Problems and Emerging Ethical Issues in China’s Media
Jiang Zhan
15. Perspectives on Pornography Demand Ethical Critique
Wendy Wyatt and Kris E. Bunton
16. Violence
Patrick Lee Plaisance
17. The Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment and What They Mean for Democratic
Politics
Bruce A. Williams and Michael X Delli Carpini
18. What Can We Get Away With? The Ethics of Art and Entertainment in a Neoliberal World
Angharad N. Valdivia
19. Culture Is Normative
Chad Painter
PART III: CONCRETE ISSUES
20. Justice as a Journalistic Value and Goal
David A. Craig
21. Transparency in Journalism: Meanings, Merits, and Risks
Kyle Heim and Stephanie Craft
22. Coercion, Consent, and the Struggle for Social Media
Kevin Healey
23. Digital Ethics in Autonomous Systems
Michael Bugeja
24. Peace Journalism
Seow Ting Lee
25. Toward an Institution-Based Theory of Privacy
Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson
PART IV: INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
26. Islamic Reform for Democracy and Global Peace
Haydar Badawi Sadig
27. Buddhist Moral Ethics: Intend No Harm, Intend to Be of Benefit
S. Holly Stocking
28. Communitarianism
Mark Fackler
29. Feminist Media Ethics
Linda Steiner
30. Spatial Ethics and Freedom of Expression
David S. Allen
31. Media Ownership in a Corporate Age
Matthew P. McAllister and Jennifer M. Proffitt
32. The Media in Evil Circumstances
Robert S. Fortner
33. Ethical Tensions in News Making: What Journalism Has in Common with Other Professions
Sandra L. Borden and Peggy Bowers
Biography
Lee Wilkins is Professor Emerita at the Missouri School of Journalism and Wayne State University.
Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Media Studies and Professor of Journalism Emeritus at the University of Illinois.