xix, 408 pages ; 23 cm
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. -- Provided by publisher
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

Media ethics and global justice in the digital age. A new theory of communication

Christians, Clifford G., author

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

RCOG Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon. This book presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international. It will interest scholars and students of media, new technologies, and global justice.

2024-07-01