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Informationen zum Autor Robert S. Fortner is Director of the Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization serving the church, NGO and international radio community with research to assist them in meeting their missions. He is also a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He is the author of International Communication: History, Conflict and Control of the Global Metropolis (Wadsworth, 1993), Public Diplomacy and International Politics: The Symbolic Constructs of Summits and International Radio News (Praeger, 1994), Radio, Morality and Culture: Britain, Canada and the United States 1919-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), and Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He has taught at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Daystar University, Kenya, and Uganda Christian University (Mukono). Fackler is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (Longman, 7th edition, 2005) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (Oxford University Press, 1993) and has contributed and edited other several books, chapters, and papers on media, ethics, and emerging democracies in East Africa. Klappentext This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. Both theoretical and practical, this important volume will raise the ethical bar for both scholars and practitioners in the world of global communication and media.* Brings together leading international scholars to consider ethical issues raised by globalization, the practice of journalism, popular culture, and media activities* Examines important themes in communication ethics, including feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and "glocalism", among many others* Contains case studies on reporting, censorship, responsibility, terrorism, disenfranchisement, and guilt throughout many countries and regions worldwide* Contributions by Islamic scholars discuss various facets of that religion's engagement with the public sphere, and others who deal with some of the religious and cultural factors that bedevil efforts to understand our world Zusammenfassung This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. The handbook includes examinations of feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and globalism, among many others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix 1 Primordial Issues in Communication Ethics 1 Clifford G. Christians 2 Communication Ethics: The Wonder of Metanarratives in a Postmodern Age 20 Ronald C. Arnett 3 Information, Communication, and Planetary Citizenship 41 Luiz Martins da Silva 4 Global Communication and Cultural Particularisms: The Place of Values in the Simultaneity of Structural Globalization and Cultural Fragmentation - The Case of Islamic Civilization 54 Bassam Tibi 5 The Ethics of Privacy in High versus Low Technology Societies 79 Robert S. Fortner 6 Social Responsibility Theory and Media Monopolies 98 P. Mark Fackler 7 Ethics and Ideology: Moving from Labels to Analysis 119 Lee Wilkins 8 Fragments of Truth: The Right to Communication as a Universal Value 133 Philip Lee 9 Glocal Media Ethics 154 Shakuntala Rao 10 Feminist Ethics and Global Media 171 Linda Steiner 11 Words as Weapons: A History of War Reporting - 1945 to the Present 193 Richard Lance Keeble 12 Multidimensional Objectivity for Global Journalism 215 Stephen ...
