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Frontmatter -- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Defining the Field / Plaisance, Patrick Lee -- 2. A History of Media Ethics: From Application to Theory and Back Again / Wilkins, Lee -- 3. Communication Ethics: Origins and Trajectories / Arnett, Ronald C. -- 4. Cultural Pluralism and Media Ethics: Theorizing in a Globalized World of Difference / Metz, Thaddeus -- 5. Contractualism for Media Ethics / Ward, Stephen J.A. -- 6. Moral Psychology / Schauster, Erin -- 7. Theorizing the Ambitions, Opportunities, and Limitations of Democratic Dialogue / Loehwing, Melanie -- 8. Deontology / Meyers, Christopher -- 9. Consequentialism / Elliott, Deni / June, Karlana -- 10. Virtue Ethics & Media / Borden, Sandra L. -- 11. Care Ethics: A Different Voice for Communication and Media Ethics / Sander-Staudt, Maureen -- 12. Harm in Journalism / Thomas, Ryan J. -- 13. Harm in Media Marketing: the Branding of Values / Spence, Edward H. -- 14. Harm and Entertainment / Tavinor, Grant -- 15. Harm in Public Relations / Fawkes, Johanna -- 16. Justice and Media Ethics / Rao, Shakuntala -- 17. Principled Advocacy / Baker, Sherry -- 18. Morality in Entertainment / Bilandzic, Helena -- 19. Popular Culture and Media / Healey, Kevin -- 20. Communication Ethics and Globalization / Löwstedt, Anthony -- 21. Communication Ethics Research: Evolution and Thoughtful Response / Arnett, Ronald C. -- 22. No Greater Than Who I Actually Am: Virtue Ethics in Digital Life Narratives / Humphrey, Michael -- 23. Web Architecture and Values in the Stack: Exploring the Relationship between Internet Infrastructure and Human Values / Proferes, Nicholas / Shilton, Katie -- 24. Communication Technology and Perception / Gunkel, David J. -- 25. Research Directions / Plaisance, Patrick Lee -- 26. Theorizing over the Horizon: Ontology in the Global Imaginary / Christians, Clifford G. -- 27. Toward an Interpretive Framework: Neuroethical Considerations for Media Ethics / Zlaten, Rhema -- 28. Searching for Universals without Making Problematic Imperialistic Assumptions / Nikolaev, Alexander G. -- Biographical notes on the contributors -- Index

ch. 1. Moral psychology : the grand convergence -- ch. 2. Design of an exemplar study -- ch. 3. A profile of media exemplars by the numbers -- ch. 4. Patterns that point to virtue -- ch. 5. Professionalism and public service -- ch. 6. Moral courage -- ch. 7. Humility and hubris -- ch. 8. Crucibles of experience -- conclusion. Lessons for media ethics theory.

This work establishes a contemporary profile of virtue in professional media practice. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance examines the experiences, perspectives, moral stances, and demographic data of two dozen professional exemplars in journalism and public relations. Plaisance conducted extensive personal ""life story"" interviews and collected survey data to assess the exemplars' personality traits, ethical ideologies, moral reasoning skills and perceived workplace climate.The chosen professionals span the geographic United States, and include Pulitzer Prize winners and trendsetting PR corporate

This study contributes to an empirical basis for media ethics theorizing by constructing a moral psychology profile of exemplars in journalism and public relations. Drawing on theories and instruments from psychology, this inductive project assesses descriptive and inferential patterns of personality traits, moral-reasoning skills, ethical ideology, and perceived workplace ethical climate among twenty-four exemplars selected for professional and ethical leadership qualities. The emerging profile suggests clear "clustering" of personality traits and an overarching emphasis on notions of care and respect for others, professional duty, concern for harm, and proactive social engagement—all of which characterize higher stages of moral development.

This article examines online activism from an ethical perspective and proposes a virtue theory framework through which to advocate specific normative standards. Over the years, digital media have become useful tools for social movements in democratic societies, providing them with spaces to congregate, exchange ideas, and mobilize. Yet, this same activism-enhancing digital infrastructure paradoxically thrives on ethically inadequate principles that could undermine activists' efforts. Drawing on scholarship on technomoral virtues and media participation, this article aims to develop a set of moral guidelines that help reorient online activism toward the pursuit of a mode of social change that concerns itself with the cultivation of the self through interactions with peers and is simultaneously aware of the ethical challenges entrenched in the digital realm.

Among the ongoing debates over ethical implications of artificial-intelligence development and applications, AI morality, and the nature of autonomous agency for robots, how to think about the moral assumptions implicit in machine-learning capacities for so-called companion robots is arguably an urgent one. This project links the development of machine-learning algorithmic design with moral-development theory language. It argues that robotic algorithmic responses should incorporate language linked to higher-order moral reasoning, reflecting notions of universal respect, community obligation and justice to encourage similar deliberation among human subjects.

Scholars studying news work have long focused on either journalistic roles or journalistic values, rather than trying to integrate the two as a way to better understand internal forces that drive reporters and editors. This study questions assumptions regarding values by applying social psychology research on values to better understand how journalists operate. The resulting "profile" of journalistic values produced by a nationwide probability-sample survey of 600 newspaper journalists—and an analysis of the links between ranked values and role conceptions—challenges assumptions about the influence of newsroom socialization on journalistic values. Analysis also shows more linkages between the adversarial role of the press and values, suggesting that the adversarial function may be more significant than indicated by previous research.

Journalism ethics theorizing is increasingly preoccupied with identifying and articulating universal norms and standards for media systems across various cultures. This study offers an empirical contribution to this topic by examining the ethical orientations of journalists in 18 countries. Country-level, or ideological, factors, rather than individual-level variables, appear to have the greatest impact on journalists' degrees of idealism and relativistic thinking. Findings affirm hierarchy-of-influences theories regarding news work. They also raise questions about the nature of universal standards that would constitute a cross-cultural journalism ethics theory and underscore concerns about the viability of Enlightenment assumptions to serve as universal journalism ethical norms.

Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains-political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical structure where organizational, professional, and procedural influences are perceived as more powerful limits to journalists' work than political and economic influences. ; Ciencias de la Comunicaci?n II

Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains—political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical structure where organizational, professional, and procedural influences are perceived as more powerful limits to journalists' work than political and economic influences.