Ethics and the Media - An Introduction

This edition provides a new and comprehensive set of ethical principles and methods of reasoning for digital, global media.

List of contents

Introduction. Media ethics in a global age; 1. Doing media ethics; 2. Reconstructing media ethics; 3. Media, engagement, and democracy; 4. Truth, objectivity, and fake news; 5. Media harm; 6. Media and extremism; 7. Citizens, media, and macro-resistance; 8. Global media ethics.

About the author

Stephen J. A. Ward is Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Lecturer of Ethics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has written ten books on media ethics, including the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2004). He is founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, and he helped to found the UBC School of Journalism.

Summary

Now revised and containing several new chapters, this book provides comprehensive ethical principles and methods of reasoning for digital, global media. It describes the turbulent state of media ethics in ordinary language and through clear examples, addressing crucial issues like social media racism, intolerant groups, and global disinformation.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. A. Ward, Stephen J. A. (University of British Columbi Ward, Ward Stephen J. A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108489768
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48976-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society