Ward Global Media Ethics

Problems and Perspectives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-35985-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Global Media Ethics is the first comprehensive cross-cultural exploration of the conceptual and practical issues facing media ethics in a global world. A team of leading journalism experts investigate the impact of major global trends on responsible journalism.
* The first full-length, truly global textbook on media ethics
* Explores how current global changes in media promote and inhibit responsible journalism
* Includes relevant and timely ethical discussions based on major trends in journalism and global media
* Questions existing frameworks in Media Ethics in light of the impact of global media
* Contributors are leading experts in global journalism and communication

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Stephen J. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Media Ethics as Global 1
Stephen J. A. Ward
Part I Media Ethics Worldwide 11
1 Why Media Ethics Still Matters 13
Nick Couldry
2 Universals and Differences in Global Journalism Ethics 30
Thomas Hanitzsch, Patrick Lee Plaisance, and Elizabeth A. Skewes
3 The Role of the Journalist in Reporting International Conflicts 50
Howard Tumber
4 Global Journalism Networks: Funding and Ethical Hurdles 69
Brant Houston
Part II Media and Diverse Public Spheres 87
5 Contextual Ethics and Arab Mass Media 89
Ralph D. Berenger and Mustafa Taha
6 From Journalism Ethics to an Ethics of Citizenship: Evidence from Colombia 110
Hernando Rojas and Tim Macafee
7 Media Ethics in a New Democracy: South African Perspectives on Freedom, Dignity, and Citizenship 126
Herman Wasserman
8 Democratization by Boilerplate: National Media, International Norms, and Sovereign Nation Building in Postwar Liberia 146
Jo Ellen Fair
Part III Global Issues 169
9 The Role of Global Media in Telling the Climate Change Story 171
Sharon Dunwoody and Magda Konieczna
10 Ethics of Global Disaster Reporting: Journalistic Witnessing and Objectivity 191
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Mervi Pantti
11 Affective Expertise: The Journalism Ethics of Celebrity Sourcing 214
Katherine M. Bell
12 Global Media Ethics, Justice, and Indian Journalism 235
Shakuntala Rao
Part IV Theoretical Foundations 251
13 Global Media Ethics? Issues, Requirements, Challenges, Resolutions 253
Charles M. Ess
14 Global Ethics and the Problem of Relativism 272
Clifford G. Christians
15 Global Media Ethics: Utopian or Realistic? 295
Stephen J. A. Ward
Index 315

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen J. A. Ward is Director of the George S. TurnbullCenter in Portland, Oregon. The center is the Portland base of theUniversity of Oregon's School of Journalism andCommunication. Previously, he was the Burgess Chair of JournalismEthics and Director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. Ward is the author of theaward-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path toObjectivity and Beyond (2005), Global Journalism Ethics(2010), and Ethics and the Media: An Introduction (2011); heis the coeditor of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A GlobalPerspective (2010).