Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

Clifford Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His co-authored books include Normative Theories of the Media (2009), Ethics for Public Communication (2011), Communication Theories in a Multicultural World (2014), The Ethics of Intercultural Communication (2015), and Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (2016).

• 1. The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates; 2. The ethics of being; 3. Ethics of truth; 4. Ethics of human dignity; 5. Ethics of nonviolence; 6. Cosmopolitan justice and its agency; Afterword; References; Index.

'Professor Christians provides a rigorous, international reboot of the foundations of media ethics though a human-centered philosophy of technology and a cosmopolitan ethic of being human. Amid a global media revolution, citizen and scholar require such deep and audacious thinking to advance human flourishing across borders.' Stephen J. A. Ward, author of Global Journalism Ethics, Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives, Radical Media Ethics A Global Approach and Handbook of Global Media Ethics