Community over Chaos - An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics

Informationen zum Autor James A. Mackin, Jr., is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Tulane University. Klappentext As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, "Community over Chaos "develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics. Zusammenfassung Using an ecological model! this text develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication. It recognizes the importance of both chaos and community in our communicative ecosystems.

Product details

• Authors: James A Mackin, James A. Mackin, James Mackin Jr
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1997
• EAN: 9780817308605
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0860-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric / Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science