TY - BOOK AU - Christians,Clifford G. TI - Media ethics and global justice in the digital age T2 - Communication, society and politics U1 - 175 22 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Mass media KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - BUEsh KW - Digital media KW - Political aspects KW - BUSBOL KW - February2020 KW - Reading book N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates -- The ethics of being -- Ethics of truth -- Ethics of human dignity -- Ethics of nonviolence -- Cosmopolitan justice and its agency -- Afterword N2 - Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, human dignity, and non-violence - and shows how these principles can be applied across a wide range of cases and domains. The book is a guide for media professionals, scholars, and educators who are concerned with the global ramifications of new technologies and with creating a more just world ER -