Robert S. Fortner is the Executive Director of the International Center for Media Studies (ICMS). He has published essays, papers and research reports for various scholarly and professional organizations, and has completed research for the Voice of America, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Central Intelligence Agency. P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communications Studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning 8e (2008) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), among other works.

"Other broad examinations of communication ethics... are available, but the present volume is the most far-reaching to date. Summing up: essential." (Choice)

• Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix1 Primordial Issues in Communication Ethics 1Clifford G. Christians2 Communication Ethics: The Wonder of Metanarratives in a Postmodern Age 20Ronald C. Arnett3 Information, Communication, and Planetary Citizenship 41Luiz Martins da Silva4 Global Communication and Cultural Particularisms: The Place of Values in the Simultaneity of Structural Globalization and Cultural Fragmentation – The Case of Islamic Civilization 54Bassam Tibi5 The Ethics of Privacy in High versus Low Technology Societies 79Robert S. Fortner6 Social Responsibility Theory and Media Monopolies 98P. Mark Fackler7 Ethics and Ideology: Moving from Labels to Analysis 119Lee Wilkins8 Fragments of Truth: The Right to Communication as a Universal Value 133Philip Lee9 Glocal Media Ethics 154Shakuntala Rao10 Feminist Ethics and Global Media 171Linda Steiner11 Words as Weapons: A History of War Reporting – 1945 to the Present 193Richard Lance Keeble12 Multidimensional Objectivity for Global Journalism 215Stephen J.A. Ward13 New Media and an Old Problem: Promoting Democracy 234Deni Elliott and Amanda Decker14 The Dilemma of Trust 247Ian Richards15 The Ethical Case for a Blasphemy Law 263Neville Cox16 The Medium is the Moral 298Michael Bugeja17 Development Ethics: The Audacious Agenda 317Chloe Schwenke18 Indigenous Media Values: Cultural and Ethical Implications 342Joe Grixti19 Media Ethics as Panoptic Discourse: A Foucauldian View 364Ed McLuskie20 Ethical Anxieties in the Global Public Sphere 376Robert S. Fortner21 Universalism versus Communitarianism in Media Ethics 393Clifford G. Christians22 Responsibility of Net Users 415Raphael Cohen-Almagor23 Media Ethics and International Organizations 434Cees J. Hamelink24 Making the Case for What Can and Should Be Published 452Bruce C. Swaffield25 Ungrievable Lives: Global Terror and the Media 461Giovanna Borradori26 Journalism Ethics in the Moral Infrastructure of a Global Civil Society 481Robert S. Fortner27 Problems of Application 500P. Mark Fackler28 Disenfranchised and Disempowered: How the Globalized Media Treat Their Audiences – A Case from India 515Anita Dighe29 Questioning Journalism Ethics in the Global Age: How Japanese News Media Report and Support Immigrant Law Revision 533Kaori Hayashi30 Ancient Roots and Contemporary Challenges: Asian Journalists Try to Find the Balance 553Jiafei Yin31 Understanding Bollywood 576Vijay Mishra32 Peace Communication in Sudan: Toward Infusing a New Islamic Perspective 601Haydar Badawi Sadig and Hala Asmina Guta33 Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya 625P. Mark Fackler, Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, and Emmanuel Okaalet 34 Ethics of Survival: Media, Palestinians, and Israelis in Conflict 654Oliver Witte35 Voiceless Glasnost: Responding to Government Pressures and Lack of a Free Press Tradition in Russia 676Victor Akhterov36 Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia 699Zenebe Beyene37 Collective Guilt as a Response to Evil: The Case of Arabs and Muslims in the Western Media 734Rasha A. Abdulla and Mervat Abou Oaf38 Journalists as Witnesses to Violence and Suffering 751Amy Richards and Jolyon Mitchell39 Reporting on Religious Authority Complicit with Atrocity 773Paul A. Soukup, S.J.40 The Ethics of Representation and the Internet 784Boniface Omachonu Omatta41 Authors, Authority, Ownership, and Ethics in Digital Media and News 802Jarice Hanson42 Ethical Implications of Blogging 822Bernhard Debatin43 Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network 844Jane B. Singer44 Now Look What You Made Me Do: Violence and Media Accountability 863Peter Hulm45 Protecting Children from Harmful Influences of Media through Formal and Nonformal Media Education 890Asbjørn Simonnes and Gudmund Gjelsten46 Ethics and International Propaganda 911Philip M. Taylor47 Modernization and Its Discontents: Ethics, Development, and the Diffusion of Innovations 932Robert S. Fortner48 Communication Technologies in the Arsenal of Al Qaeda and Taliban: Why the West Is Not Winning the War on Terror 952Haydar Badawi Sadig, Roshan Noorzai, and Hala Asmina Guta49 The Ethics of a Very Public Sphere: Differential Soundscapes and the Discourse of the Streets 972Robert S. FortnerIndex 991