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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.

This essay is the honorary "Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture" for 2015, presented at the International Communication Association meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 23 May 2015. Internet technology is understood in social terms not just as tools. As a social/cultural phenomenon, the new media's core ethical norm arguably becomes social justice. The global dynamics of the Internet system requires an international definition of justice as intrinsic worthiness, rather than the standard idea of justice as right-order legality determined by nation-state conventions. This understanding of justice is defended against relativism which claims that values are culture specific.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Foundations -- 1. A Philosophically Based Inquiry into the Nature of Communicating Humans -- 2. A Short History of Media Ethics in the United States -- 3. Essential Shared Values and 21st Century Journalism -- 4. Moral Development: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Moral Decision Making -- 5. On the Unfortunate Divide between Media Ethics and Media Law -- 6. The Search for Universals -- 7. Justice in Media Ethics -- PART II: Professional Practice -- 8. Truth and Objectivity -- 9. Photojournalism Ethics: A 21st Century Primal Dance of Behavior, Technology, and Ideology -- 10. Diversity Requires Ethics Change -- 11. The Ethics of Advocacy: Moral Reasoning in the Practice of Public Relations -- 12. The Ethics of Propaganda and the Propaganda of Ethics -- 13. Exploring Latin American Advertising Ethics: Legislation and Self-Regulation -- 14. Moral Problems and Ethical Issues in China's Media -- 15. Perspectives on Pornography Demand Ethical Critique -- 16. Violence -- 17. The Eroding Boundaries between News and Entertainment and What They Mean for Democratic Politics -- 18. What Can We Get Away With? The Ethics of Art and Entertainment in the Neoliberal World -- 19. Culture Is Normative -- PART III: Concrete Issues -- 20. Justice as a Journalistic Value and Goal -- 21. Transparency in Journalism: Meanings, Merits, and Risks -- 22. Coercion, Consent, and the Struggle for Social Media -- 23. Digital Ethics in Autonomous Systems -- 24. Peace Journalism -- 25. Toward an Institution-based Theory of Privacy -- PART IV: Institutional Considerations -- 26. Islamic Reform for Democracy and Global Peace -- 27. Buddhist Moral Ethics: Intend No Harm, Intend to Be of Benefit -- 28. Communitarianism -- 29. Feminist Media Ethics.