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Handbook of Global Media Ethics

  • The first handbook on global media ethics

  • Provides a valuable resource for teaching media ethics in a global era

  • Addresses all major approaches to global media ethics

  • Contains contributions by leading, internationally recognized authors in the field of media ethics

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Table of contents (70 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
    2. What Is Global Media Ethics?

      • Stephen J. A. Ward
      Pages 5-21
    3. Is Global Media Ethics Utopian?

      • Stephen J. A. Ward
      Pages 23-39
    4. Political Emotions and Global Ethics

      • Stephen J. A. Ward
      Pages 41-57
    5. Do Journalists Share Universal Values?

      • Folker Hanusch, Sandra Banjac
      Pages 71-90
    6. Beyond the News and Opinion Dichotomy

      • François Heinderyckx
      Pages 137-156
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 177-178
  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-183
    2. A Feminist Ethics for Journalism

      • Linda Steiner
      Pages 185-206
    3. Cosmopolitanism as Ground for Global Media Ethics

      • Stephen J. A. Ward
      Pages 207-229
    4. Moral Psychology in Media

      • Patrick Lee Plaisance
      Pages 277-300
    5. Algorithms and Media Ethics in the AI Age

      • Changfeng Chen, Gaelle A. Chekam
      Pages 301-328

About this book

This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics. The advent of new media that is global in reach and impact has created the need for a journalism ethics that is global in principles and aims. For many scholars, teachers and journalists, the existing journalism ethics, e.g. existing codes of ethics, is too parochial and national. It fails to provide adequate normative guidance for a media that is digital, global and practiced by professional and citizen. A global media ethics is being constructed to define what responsible public journalism means for a new global media era. Currently, scholars write texts and codes for global media, teach global media ethics, analyse how global issues should be covered, and gather together at conferences, round tables and meetings. However, the field lacks an authoritative handbook that presents the views of leading thinkers on the most important issues for global media ethics. This handbook is a milestone in the field, and a major contribution to media ethics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • UBC Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Stephen J. A. Ward

About the editor

Dr. Stephen J. A. Ward is an internationally recognized author, media ethicist and historian of ideas whose research is on the ethics of global, digital media, the rise of extreme media, and its impact on democracy. He is professor emeritus and Distinguished Lecturer on Ethics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He has written and edited 10 books on media ethics, including the award-winning Radical Media Ethics and The Invention of Journalism Ethics. A former war reporter, he is founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, co-founder of the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver, and former director of the Turnbull Media Center at the University of Oregon in Portland.  He has won the President’s Award for lifetime contribution to journalism from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

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Hardcover Book USD 299.99
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