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News Which should take precedence at a virtual reality campus: corporate service terms or freedom of information laws? — The Chronicle of Higher Education Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee
School of Journalism and Communication, says,
"If you want enlightened
conversations on your site, people have to use their real names," he
says, adding that news sites also should clearly differentiate comments
from stories — USA Today click here for more news |
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Advance Reviews
"This phosphorescent book puts communication ethics on a new order of magnitude. Living Ethics is destined to become a classic in the tradition of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, Jacques Ellul's Propaganda, and Jean Baudrillard's Simulations. Brilliant in content and spectacular in research, a master teacher and public intellectual are at work here. Establishing ethics discourse across media platforms is exactly what the field needs in a technological age and we'll never be able to think about ethics in static terms again. With formalism discredited and relativism simplistic, Living Ethics is an ingenious alternative"—Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "This is an important book—a comprehensive look at media ethics, drawing on vital and pervasive concepts, and blessedly relevant to multiple media venues, not simply publishing, electronic media or digital media. Big ideas about responsibility, fairness, bias, temptation are connected to specific examples, some powerful, some homely, but all useful. This is at once a treatise for serious readers and a text for students and professionals in a world where convergence is not only conceptual, but also part of the lives of people who work across platforms too. A very useful contribution to the literature, building on and greatly amplifying an earlier edition"—Everette Dennis, Distinguished Professor, Fordham University |
 Living Ethics across media platforms  In a seamlessly wired world of television, computers and BlackBerrys, where does ethics fit in? To address that question, Living Ethics calls for a moral convergence to complement the technological one. Identifying principles that apply across platforms, journalist Michael Bugeja has created a thorough and well-researched work that avoids the prescriptive language used by many texts; instead, he encourages critical thinking through examples that build, test and enhance readers' value systems. While many ethics texts focus almost exclusively on news ethics, Living Ethics emphasizes unifying principles that collapse and transcend the boundaries of a wide variety of media sources—including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, public relations, photojournalism, advertising, and other forms of traditional and online mass communication. As readers will discover, the circumstances of ethical issues may vary, but the moral processes used to resolve them are basically the same. Resolutely practical,
Living Ethics is written in a
clear and cogent style that helps readers:
Michael
Bugeja, an award-winning educator and author, is a practicing
journalist
whose work appears regularly in The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Quill and Editor & Publisher. A
distinguished ethicist and new media scholar, his views on standards
and technology are cited in
such outlets as USA Today, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian
and other international media.
Living Ethics Across Media
Platforms combines his scholarship in ethics and research in
new media with
his journalistic prowess and practical methods, making this book a
standout edition for students and practitioners alike.
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