Robert S. Fortner is Director of the Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization serving the church, NGO and international radio community with research to assist them in meeting their missions. He is also a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He is the author of International Communication: History, Conflict and Control of the Global Metropolis (Wadsworth, 1993), Public Diplomacy and International Politics: The Symbolic Constructs of Summits and International Radio News (Praeger, 1994), Radio, Morality and Culture: Britain, Canada and the United States 1919-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), and Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. He has taught at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Daystar University, Kenya, and Uganda Christian University (Mukono). Fackler is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (Longman, 7th edition, 2005) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (Oxford University Press, 1993) and has contributed and edited other several books, chapters, and papers on media, ethics, and emerging democracies in East Africa.

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• 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