Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

Presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international.

Clifford G. Christians (Author)

9781316606391, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 March 2019

428 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg

'This book provides a useful framework for both seasoned and new scholars to help guide contemporary media ethics while building on the success of the previous scholarship that made the field what it is today.' Rocci Luppicini, Prometheus

Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, human dignity, and non-violence - and shows how these principles can be applied across a wide range of cases and domains. The book is a guide for media professionals, scholars, and educators who are concerned with the global ramifications of new technologies and with creating a more just world.

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.

Subject Areas: Entertainment & media law [LNJ], Media, information & communication industries [KNT], Political science & theory [JPA], Media studies [JFD], Social & political philosophy [HPS]