Communication ethics and universal values / editors, Clifford Christians and Michael Traber.

Other author Christians, Clifford G.
Other author Traber, Michael.
Format Book
Publication InfoThousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1997.
Descriptionxvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.

Contents Part I: Foundations and framework. The Ethics of being in a communications context / Clifford G. 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 II: Protonorms across cultures / The Basic norm of truthfulness: its ethical justification and universality / Dietmar Mieth -- The Arab-Islamic heritage in communication ethics / Muhammad I. Ayish, Haydar Badawi Sadig -- Ethics and the discourse on ethics in post-colonial India / Anantha Sudhaker-Babbili -- Communication ethics in a Latin American context / Gabriel Jaime Perez -- Communalistic societies: community and self-respect as African values / Andrew Azukaego Moemeka -- Emergent values from American Indian discourse / Cynthia-Lou Coleman -- Part III: Applications. Communications, hope, and ethics / Pedro Gilberto Gomes -- Communication ethics in a changing Chinese society: the case of Taiwan / Georgette Wang -- Japanese-style communication in a new global age / Hideo Takeichi -- Vagaries of time and place: media ethics in Poland / Karol Jakubowicz -- Accepting the other: on the ethics of intercultural communication in ethnographic film / Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson -- Women, welfare, and the United States media / Robin Andersen -- Conclusion: an ethics of communication worthy of human beings / Michael Traber.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96051209
ISBN0761905847 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0761905855 (pbk. : acid-free paper)