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Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2019), xix, 408 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 338-390, index

Series: Communication, Society and Politics

ISBN 978-1-316-60639-1 (pbk); 978-1-316-58538-2 (ebook)

Signature commbox: 10-Ethics-E 2019

"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
1 The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates, 32
2 The ethics of being, 92
3 Ethics of truth, 133
4 Ethics of human dignity, 185
5 Ethics of nonviolence, 239
6 Cosmopolitan justice and its agency, 293
Afterword, 333