Communication Ethics and Universal Values / Edition 1

by Clifford G. Christians, Michael Traber

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761905851
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/28/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Michael Traber, who died on 25 March 2006, was born and educated in Switzerland. In 1956 he was ordained into the Bethlehem Mission Society from where he went to the USA to study sociology and mass communication at Fordham University and New York University (1956-60). He gained his Ph D in mass communication.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Seyla Benhabib
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK
The Problem of Universals in Communication Ethics - Clifford Christians
The Moral Dimension of Communicating - Antonio Pasquali
Discourse Ethics and Its Relevance for Communication and Media Ethics - Edmund Arens
Universal Values and Moral Development Theories - Deni Elliott
PART TWO: PROTONORMS ACROSS CULTURES
The Basic Norm of Truthfulness - Dietmar Mieth
Its Ethical Justification and Universality
The Arab-Islamic Heritage in Communication Ethics - Muhammad I Ayish and Haydar Badawi Sadig
Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India - Anantha Sudhaker Babbili
Three Axiological Proposals for Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context - Gabriel Jaime Perez
Communalistic Societies - Andrew A Moemeka
Community and Self-Respect as African Values
Emergent Values from American Indian Discourse - Cynthia-Lou Coleman
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS
Communication, Hope and Ethics - Pedro Gomes
Communication Ethics in a Changing Chinese Society - Georgette Wang
The Case of Taiwan
Japanese Style Communication in a New Global Age - Hideo Takeichi
Vagaries of Time and Place - Karol Jakubowicz
Media Ethics in Poland
Accepting the Other - Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson
On the Ethics of Intercultural Communication in Ethnographic Film
Women, Welfare and the United States Media - Robin Andersen
CONCLUSION
An Ethics of Communication Worthy of Human Beings - Michael Traber