The eleventh edition of this authoritative book focuses on the most pressing media ethics issues, including coverage the 2024 elections and the emergence of AI. Enabling students to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment, the book focuses on practical ethical theory for use across the media curriculum.
The eleventh edition of this authoritative book focuses on the most pressing media ethics issues, including coverage of the 2024 elections and the emergence of AI. Enabling students to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment, the book focuses on practical ethical theory for use across the media curriculum.
Twenty-three new cases address events from the Israel-Hamas war, AI-generated authors, privacy for underage influencers, Fox News election fraud claims, social media whistleblowers, threats to student-run media outlets, police posing as journalists, the Bud Light transgender ad uproar, the use of generative AI in advertising, the publication of graphic war images (focusing on the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars), deep fakes in sexually explicit media, the impact of Taylor Swift on the NFL, video games requiring in-game purchases to win, and more.
Additional Features:
· Each case has pedagogical questions that expand outward from the specifics of the case itself to ever-larger issues suggested by the case.
· Chapters in such areas as social justice, media and democracy, and loyalty, discuss all types of media rather than segmenting the text by medium.
· An introductory chapter in moral philosophy begins the text and a final chapter in moral development concludes it.
· Text addresses the implications of digital content throughout multiple media industries and platforms.
Online material for students and instructors includes all cases from previous editions, lecture slides, essay questions, and suggested classroom activities.
Recenzijas
The best way to engage students in a conversation about media ethics is to provide them with relevant cases that they can relate to. This book provides a great mix of contemporary cases from varied media. -- Dom Caristi, Ball State University, USA This book is one of the few that examines media ethics from the perspective of various media disciplines including photography, advertising and public relations in addition to news. This reality makes it easier to address the needs and interests of our students enrolled in these various concentrations. -- Marlene S. Neill, APR, Fellow PRSA, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Baylor University
Papildus informācija
The eleventh edition of this authoritative book focuses on the most pressing media ethics issues, including coverage the 2024 elections and the emergence of AI. Enabling students to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment, the book focuses on practical ethical theory for use across the media curriculum.
(*new to this edition)
Foreword
Preface
1. An Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Essay: Cases and moral systems (Deni Elliott)
Case 1-A: How to read a case study (Philip Patterson)
Introduction to Part I
2. Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the?Truth
*Case 2-A: Really crazy: Fox News hosts didnt believe their own coverage
of election fraud claims (Chad Painter)
*Case 2-B: Sports Illustrated avatars: Generative AI and journalistic
integrity (Mark Heisten)
*Case 2-C: Ethical dilemmas in news coverage: The case of Breonna Taylor
(Shreyoshi Ghosh)
Case 2-D: Dont tweet ill of the dead (Chad Painter)
Case 2-E: Anonymous or confidential: Unnamed news sources in the news (Lee
Wilkins)
Case 2-F: When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting? (Theodore L.
Glasser)
3. Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village
*Case 3-A: Sharenting: Privacy concerns of sharing photos and videos of
children on social media (Brooke Baker)
Case 3-B: Guilty by Google: Unpublishing and crime reporting in the digital
age (Deborah L. Dwyer)
Case 3-C: Drones and the?news (Kathleen Bartzen Culver)
Case 3-D: Doxxer, doxxer, give me the news? (Mark Anthony Poepsel)
*Case 3-E: Remember my fame: Digital necromancy and the immortal celebrity
(Samantha Most)
*Case 3-F: Watchdog or horndog: Daily Mail, revenge porn, and Katie Hill
(Chad Painter)
4. Loyalty: Choosing between Competing Allegiances
*Case 4-A: College media: When students are the watchdog (Chad Painter)
*Case 4-B: Natural hair on air (Chad Painter)
Case 4-C: To watch or to report: What journalists were thinking in the midst
of disaster (Lee Wilkins)
Case 4-D: When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom (Lee
Wilkins)
Case 4-E: Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and relationships in a
small market (Ginny Whitehouse)
Case 4-F: Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the?flow? (Robert D. Wakefield)
5. Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise
Case 5-A: Murder the media: Ethics on January 6, 2021 (Lee Wilkins)
Case 5-B: When journalists question algorithms and automated systems (Xerxes
Minocher and Kathleen Bartzen Culver)
Case 5-C: Mayor Jim Wests computer (Ginny Whitehouse)
Case 5-D: For God and country: The media and national security (Jeremy Littau
and Mark Slagle)
*Case 5-E: Rules of engagement: Mary Louise Kelly and the Mike Pompeo
interview (Lee Wilkins)
*Case 5-F: Harry and Meghan: Context and control (Lee Wilkins)
6. Informing a Just Society
*Case 6-A: Bring back manly men: Right- and left-wing backlash to Harry
Styless Vogue cover (Alayna Yates)
*Case 6-B: Sex sells (but should it?): Female athletes in sports media (Mary
Ellen Duvall)
*Case 6-C: Should a newspaper be private in public? (Lee Wilkins)
Case 6-D: Journalism and activism? When identity becomes political (Rebecca
Smith)
Case 6-E: Wheres the line? Covering racial protest on a college campus
(Nicole Kraft)
Case 6-F: A second draft of history: The New York Timess 1619 Project (Lee
Wilkins)
Introduction to Part II
7. Strategic Communication: The Ethics of Persuasion
*Case 7-A: Theres a code you dont breach: The outing of astroturfing in
Hollywood PR (Philip Patterson)
*Case 7-B: Mattels pink revolution: How Barbie turned the tables on
performative DEI (Kyle Harris)
*Case 7-C: Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney: Unthoughtful inclusivity, backlash,
and online abuse (Evgeniia Belobrovkina)
Case 7-D: Through the glass darkly: Peloton, body shaming, and Americas odd
relationship with exercise (Lee Wilkins)
Case 7-E: Weedvertising (Lee Wilkins)
Case 7-F: Keeping up with the Kardashians prescription drug choices (Tara
Walker)
8. Picture This: Technology, Visual Information, and Evolving Standards
*Case 8-A: Misinformation (and) war: Responsible journalism in the digital
age (Rania Al Namara)
Case 8-B: Taylor Swift and deepfake pornography: Is it ever appropriate to
restrict violent speech? (Lee Wilkins)
*Case 8-C: New York Times ends political cartoons (Chad Painter)
Case 8-F: Did you meme that? The unhoppy life of Pepe the Frog (Lee Wilkins)
Case 8-E: Problem photos and public outcry (Jon Roosenraad)
*Case 8-F: Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community
standards (Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman)
9. Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line
*Case 9-A: Reinventing the local newspaper: Can all-digital compete in a
changing media environment (Lee Wilkins)
*Case 9-B: When Taylor met Travis: The NFLs Swiftie era (Chad Painter)
*Case 9-C: When investigative reporting is bad for business (Chad Painter)
Case 9-D: Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcast Group and
must-runs (Keena Neal)
Case 9-E: Contested interests, contested terrain: The New York Times code of
ethics (Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennen)
Case 9-F: Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters (Chad Painter)
10. The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment
*Case 10-A: Pay to play (or at least to win): Loot boxes in video games (Chad
Painter)
Case 10-B: #OscarsSoWhite: Representation in the creative process (Lee
Wilkins)
Case 10-C: Get Out: When the horror is race (Michael Fuhlhage and Lee
Wilkins)
Case 10-D: The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings (Chad Painter)
Case 10-E: Spotlight: It takes a village to abuse a child (Lee Wilkins)
Case 10-F: Fyre Festival becomes Fyre fraud (Emily Horvath and Chad Painter)
11. Becoming a Moral Adult
References
Index
Chad Painter is associate professor and department chair of communication at the University of Dayton, USA.
Erin E. Schauster is associate professor of advertising, public relations, and media design at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
Lee Wilkins is Distinguished Curator's Teaching Professor and professor emerita in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, USA.
Philip Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication at Oklahoma Christian University, USA.
