Product Description: The 2003 incarnation of the Colloquia 2000 series on Applied Media Ethics--the fourth in a decade-long series--offered an opportunity for application of various comparative yardsticks testing media ethics maturity. This special double issue reflects concerns of interest to most areas of professional ethics, and concerns of particular interest to media ethicists: the nature of accountability, obligation, power, virtue, and professional-client relationships...read more

Product Description: Less than two months after the September 11 tragedies, a group of scholars gathered at Washington and Lee University to advance ideas on whether there can be a universal set of moral values toward which media professionals may look for guidance...read more

Product Description: This special issue shows that "old ethics" don't always provide ready answers to problems raised by new technology. Exploring the perplexing topic of ethics in new media, this special issue: *examines the ethics of the highly controversial 1998 Cincinnati Enquirer exposé of Chiquita Brands International; *reports on a pilot project involving online journalists and online journalism graduate students; *investigates the extent to which e-mail and listservs are--and could be--effective fora for journalists interested in exploring matters of ethics; and *provides a useful annotated webliography of information resources...read more

Product Description: In a society in which persuasion is a second nature skill for individuals, advertising and public relations are the outgrowth professions that raise the process of persuasion to a fine art, leaving both gratitude and fear in their wake...read more

Product Description: The aim of this text is to help students recognize the important role they play as journalists, and to make the connection between excellent journalism and ethical journalism.

Product Description: One of the sharpest recent debates over media ethics has centered around what has been variously called public or civic or communitarian journalism. This special issue examines some of the underlying concerns of communitarian journalism including the relationships between individual and community and the connecting role of journalism; negative vs...read more

Product Description: In this day and age of media litigation, the lines between what is legal and what is ethical have grown increasingly blurred. Courts are inquiring into media malpractice and hinging their cases on the degree to which the press adheres to or deviates from its self-professed professional standards...read more

Product Description: This outstanding text in mass media combines a serious, comprehensive exploration of media with an accessible writing style. The text reaches beyond the traditional mass media to look at the explosive world of electronic communication, giving students a broad perspective from which to view today’s media world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today -- the nature and needs of the individual versus the nature and needs of the broader society; theories of communitarianism versus Enlightenment liberalism; independence versus interdependence (vs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Concerns over privacy in America and the role of a free and responsible press have intensified in recent years. The Journal of Mass Media Ethics has worked with Poynter Institute for Media Studies in an effort to focus and broaden the discussion...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive survey of the history, present condition and future status of mass communication reflects the growth of personal media as major forces in society. This new edition retains its focus on the close and complex relationship between the mass media and society...read more

Product Description: The technological age has penetrated deeply into virtually everyone's consciousness, but adaptation to it is clearly another matter for most. Professional communicators are no exception. Adapted from a media and privacy conference at the Poynter Institute in St...read more