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Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can be promoted within the industry. Brings together experts in the fields of media studies and media ethics, information ethics, and professional ethicsOffers an original ethical framework designed specif

Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic philosophy to assess the impact of technology on wellbeing. Through developing this model, Spence offers a novel and important examination of the benefit of technology to our society as a whole.

Chapter 1: Introduction 3; Chapter 2 The Tree of Knowledge: The Normative Structure of Information -- Chapter 3 The Serpent's Lair - Characteristics, Causes and Contexts of Corruption -- Chapter 4 Media Corruption -Types, Causes and Contexts -- Chapter 5 Tech Media Corruption in the Age of Information -- Chapter 6 Investigative Journalism - the Serum Against the Snake's Bite -- Chapter 7 Public Policy and Regulative Change to Combat Media Corruption -- Epilogue - Knowledge to Wisdom in the Age of information -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1:The Myth of Gyges -- Appendix 2: The Allegory of the Cave.

From analog to digital news -- A new paradigm for news -- Legacy news organizations move from analog to digital -- Intellectual property and information sharing -- Citizen responsibility in the digital era -- Thinking through ethical issues in digital journalism -- DOIT, a process for normative analysis -- Issues in convergent journalism -- Privacy and disclosure -- Deception in sourcing and presentation -- Media corruption -- Using the virtual world to create a better physical world -- Beyond ethics: communicating wisely -- Digital diversity and democracy.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: From Analog to Digital News -- 1 A New Paradigm for News -- First, Some Definitions -- The New World of News Production and Consumption -- A Brief History of Journalism Ethics and Paradigm Shifts -- Works Cited -- 2 Legacy News Organizations Move from Analog to Digital -- New Ethical Issues for a Virtual Environment -- The Reasons That Legacy News Media Endure -- Legacy News Media Adaptation to New Technology -- Reframing Role-Related Responsibilities for Digital News -- Online Forum or Free-for-All -- Corrections -- Implications of Immortal Stories -- Ethical Issues Raised by Financial Changes -- Incorporating Ads: Let Me Count the Ways -- Project Partnerships and Creative Cost-Sharing -- Come for the Kittens -- Stay for the News -- New Ethical Imperatives for Online News Sites -- Works Cited -- 3 Intellectual Property and Information Sharing -- Copyright Law -- Fair Use -- Copies in a Digital Age: Traditional Views and Open Access -- Aggregation and Plagiarism -- Adapting Intellectual Property to the Digital Era -- Works Cited -- 4 Citizen Responsibility in the Digital Era -- The Philosophers' Arguments -- Digital Journalism, Audience Fragmentation, and Misperceptions -- Ethical News Consumption in a Digital Age -- Pseudonymous Engagement as a First Step -- Works Cited -- Part II: Thinking Through Ethical Issues in Digital Journalism -- 5 DOIT, A Process for Normative Analysis -- The Normative Structure of Information -- Information and Universal Rights -- The DOIT Model -- Global Information Ethics: Cultural Relativism without Moral Relativism -- Works Cited -- 6 Issues in Convergent Journalism -- The Fourth Estate -- The Convergence of Old and New Media: Five Paradigmatic Cases -- The New Journalists of the Fifth Estate? -- Works Cited.

Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation of technology and its social, psychological, and political effects, and a philosophical analysis and evaluation of the implications of such effects.

The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply