Book description
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 Director of the Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization
serving the church, NGO and international radio community with research
to assist them in meeting their missions. He is also a Professor of
Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He is the author of
International Communication: History, Conflict and Control of the Global
Metropolis (Wadsworth, 1993), Public Diplomacy and International
Politics: The Symbolic Constructs of Summits and International Radio
News (Praeger, 1994), Radio, Morality and Culture: Britain, Canada and
the United States 1919-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006),
and Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of
Communication (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at
Calvin College. He has taught at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia,
Daystar University, Kenya, and Uganda Christian University (Mukono).
Fackler is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning
(Longman, 7th edition, 2005) and Good News: Social Ethics and the
Press (Oxford University Press, 1993) and has contributed and edited
other several books, chapters, and papers on media, ethics, and
emerging democracies in East Africa.
