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Communication Ethics and Universal Values

Edited by:

Clifford G. Christians - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michael Traber - World Association for Christian Communication, London

Other Titles in:
Communication and Media Studies (General)

March 1997 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values.

The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend the possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity. Through an examination of the values in which their cultures are grounded, they provide a short list of ethical principles which form the common ground from which to view contemporary issues in the media, interpersonal communication, mediation and conflict resolution.

Seyla Benhabib

Foreword

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK

Clifford Christians

The Problem of Universals in Communication Ethics

Antonio Pasquali

The Moral Dimension of Communicating

Edmund Arens

Discourse Ethics and Its Relevance for Communication and Media Ethics

Deni Elliott

Universal Values and Moral Development Theories

PART TWO: PROTONORMS ACROSS CULTURES

Dietmar Mieth

The Basic Norm of Truthfulness

Its Ethical Justification and Universality

Muhammad I Ayish and Haydar Badawi Sadig

The Arab-Islamic Heritage in Communication Ethics

Anantha Sudhaker Babbili

Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India

Gabriel Jaime Perez

Three Axiological Proposals for Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context

Andrew A Moemeka

Communalistic Societies

Community and Self-Respect as African Values

Cynthia-Lou Coleman

Emergent Values from American Indian Discourse

PART THREE: APPLICATIONS

Pedro Gomes

Communication, Hope and Ethics

Georgette Wang

Communication Ethics in a Changing Chinese Society

The Case of Taiwan

Hideo Takeichi

Japanese Style Communication in a New Global Age

Karol Jakubowicz

Vagaries of Time and Place

Media Ethics in Poland

Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson

Accepting the Other

On the Ethics of Intercultural Communication in Ethnographic Film

Robin Andersen

Women, Welfare and the United States Media

CONCLUSION

Michael Traber

An Ethics of Communication Worthy of Human Beings

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