Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives

342 Pages·2013·2.14 MB·English

by  Stephen J. A. Ward (editor)

Global Media Ethics

Global Media Ethics
Problems and Perspectives
Edited by
Stephen J. A. Ward
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Contents
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
viii Contents
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