Media ethics and global justice in the digital age /
Christians, Clifford G.,
Media ethics and global justice in the digital age / Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. - xix, 408 pages ; 24 cm. - Communication, society and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates -- The ethics of being -- Ethics of truth -- Ethics of human dignity -- Ethics of nonviolence -- Cosmopolitan justice and its agency -- Afterword.
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.
Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.
Digital media--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Digital media--Political aspects.
--Reading book
175 / CHR
Media ethics and global justice in the digital age / Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. - xix, 408 pages ; 24 cm. - Communication, society and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates -- The ethics of being -- Ethics of truth -- Ethics of human dignity -- Ethics of nonviolence -- Cosmopolitan justice and its agency -- Afterword.
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.
Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.
Digital media--Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Digital media--Political aspects.
--Reading book
175 / CHR