The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

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

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix 1 Primordial Issues in Communication Ethics 1 Clifford G. Christians 2 Communication Ethics: The Wonder of Metanarratives in a Postmodern Age 20 Ronald C. Arnett 3 Information, Communication, and Planetary Citizenship 41 Luiz Martins da Silva 4 Global Communication and Cultural Particularisms: The Place of Values in the Simultaneity of Structural Globalization and Cultural Fragmentation - The Case of Islamic Civilization 54 Bassam Tibi 5 The Ethics of Privacy in High versus Low Technology Societies 79 Robert S. Fortner 6 Social Responsibility Theory and Media Monopolies 98 P. Mark Fackler 7 Ethics and Ideology: Moving from Labels to Analysis 119 Lee Wilkins 8 Fragments of Truth: The Right to Communication as a Universal Value 133 Philip Lee 9 Glocal Media Ethics 154 Shakuntala Rao 10 Feminist Ethics and Global Media 171 Linda Steiner 11 Words as Weapons: A History of War Reporting - 1945 to the Present 193 Richard Lance Keeble 12 Multidimensional Objectivity for Global Journalism 215 Stephen J.A. Ward 13 New Media and an Old Problem: Promoting Democracy 234 Deni Elliott and Amanda Decker 14 The Dilemma of Trust 247 Ian Richards 15 The Ethical Case for a Blasphemy Law 263 Neville Cox 16 The Medium is the Moral 298 Michael Bugeja 17 Development Ethics: The Audacious Agenda 317 Chloe Schwenke 18 Indigenous Media Values: Cultural and Ethical Implications 342 Joe Grixti 19 Media Ethics as Panoptic Discourse: A Foucauldian View 364 Ed McLuskie 20 Ethical Anxieties in the Global Public Sphere 376 Robert S. Fortner 21 Universalism versus Communitarianism in Media Ethics 393 Clifford G. Christians 22 Responsibility of Net Users 415 Raphael Cohen-Almagor 23 Media Ethics and International Organizations 434 Cees J. Hamelink 24 Making the Case for What Can and Should Be Published 452 Bruce C. Swaffield 25 Ungrievable Lives: Global Terror and the Media 461 Giovanna Borradori 26 Journalism Ethics in the Moral Infrastructure of a Global Civil Society 481 Robert S. Fortner 27 Problems of Application 500 P. Mark Fackler 28 Disenfranchised and Disempowered: How the Globalized Media Treat Their Audiences - A Case from India 515 Anita Dighe 29 Questioning Journalism Ethics in the Global Age: How Japanese News Media Report and Support Immigrant Law Revision 533 Kaori Hayashi 30 Ancient Roots and Contemporary Challenges: Asian Journalists Try to Find the Balance 553 Jiafei Yin 31 Understanding Bollywood 576 Vijay Mishra 32 Peace Communication in Sudan: Toward Infusing a New Islamic Perspective 601 Haydar Badawi Sadig and Hala Asmina Guta 33 Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya 625 P. Mark Fackler, Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, and Emmanuel Okaalet 34 Ethics of Survival: Media, Palestinians, and Israelis in Conflict 654 Oliver Witte 35 Voiceless Glasnost: Responding to Government Pressures and Lack of a Free Press Tradition in Russia 676 Victor Akhterov 36 Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia 699 Zenebe Beyene 37 Collective Guilt as a Response to Evil: The Case of Arabs and Muslims in the Western Media 734 Rasha A. Abdulla and Mervat Abou Oaf 38 Journalists as Witnesses to Violence and Suffering 751 Amy Richards and Jolyon Mitchell 39 Reporting on Religious Authority Complicit with Atrocity 773 Paul A. Soukup, S.J. 40 The Ethics of Representation and the Internet 784 Boniface Omachonu Omatta 41 Authors, Authority, Ownership, and Ethics in Digital Media and News 802 Jarice Hanson 42 Ethical Implications of Blogging 822 Bernhard Debatin 43 Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network 844 Jane B. Singer 44 Now Look What You Made Me Do: Violence and Media Accountability 863 Peter Hulm 45 Protecting Children from Harmful Influences of Media through Formal and Nonformal Media Education 890 Asbjorn Simonnes and Gudmund Gjelsten 46 Ethics and International Propaganda 911 Philip M. Taylor 47 Modernization and Its Discontents: Ethics, Development, and the Diffusion of Innovations 932 Robert S. Fortner 48 Communication Technologies in the Arsenal of Al Qaeda and Taliban: Why the West Is Not Winning the War on Terror 952 Haydar Badawi Sadig, Roshan Noorzai, and Hala Asmina Guta 49 The Ethics of a Very Public Sphere: Differential Soundscapes and the Discourse of the Streets 972 Robert S. Fortner Index 991

About the Author :
Robert S. Fortner is the Executive Director of the International Center for Media Studies (ICMS). He has published essays, papers and research reports for various scholarly and professional organizations, and has completed research for the Voice of America, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Central Intelligence Agency. P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communications Studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning 8e (2008) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), among other works.

Review :
"Other broad examinations of communication ethics...are available, but the present volume is the most far-reaching to date. Summing up: essential." - Choice