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Media ethics and global justice in the digital age / Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Communication, society and politicsPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xix, 408 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 175 CHR 22
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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