Presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international.
Clifford Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His co-authored books include Normative Theories of the Media (2009), Ethics for Public Communication (2011), Communication Theories in a Multicultural World (2014), The Ethics of Intercultural Communication (2015), and Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (2016).
1. The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates; 2. The ethics of being; 3. Ethics of truth; 4. Ethics of human dignity; 5. Ethics of nonviolence; 6. Cosmopolitan justice and its agency; Afterword; References; Index.