The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason about Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780805844757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 178 str.

Lee Wilkins; Renita Coleman

Opis

The Moral Media is designed to provide readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. It serves as a beginning on which other scholars - and professionals who are concerned with quality of ethical decision making in the media - can build. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the thinking of other professionals. the DIT and place it within the larger history of three fields: psychology, philosophy, and mass communication. It also includes both a statistical (quantitative) and narrative (qualitative) analysis of journalists' responses to the DIT. Part II attempts to add to scholarship theory building in these three disciplines and makes changes in the DIT that adds an element of visual information processing to the test. Part III explores the larger meaning of this effort and links the results both to theory and practice in these three fields. The Moral Media is about connections among various intellectual disciplines, between the academy and the profession of journalism, and among those who believe that what journalists do is essential. scholars in journalism and mass communication; psychologists, particularly those interested in human development and behavior; and philosophers.

Recenzje

"The monograph can inform teachers, give some backing to media professionals who feel the need to explain why and how they decided an ethical question, and aid scholars in their search for new hypotheses and new methods of measuring and explaining behavior."
—Media Ethics

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Understanding Journalists' Responses to Moral Questions. Moral Development Theory: A Historical Approach. Methods: Multiple Approaches to Asking Questions. Context and Results: The Defining Issues Test. Moral Development: In Their Own Words. Part II: The Struggle to Think Deeply--Pictures, Deception, and Persuasion. What's a Picture Worth When It Comes to Ethical Reasoning? Ethical Reasoning and the Color Bind. S.T. Lee, The Ethics of Journalistic Deception. A. Cunningham, Advertising Practitioners Respond: The News Is Not Good. Part III: Implications for Teachers, Scholars, and Professionals. Teaching Journalists About Ethics: What This Study Suggests. Theory: A Moving Target. Appendix.

O autorze

Lee Wilkins, Renita Coleman