Robert S. Fortner - The handbook of global communication and media ethics: [Volume I and II]

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This edition first published 2011
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The handbook of global communication and media ethics / edited by Robert S. Fortner and P. Mark Fackler.

p. cm. (Handbooks in communication and media; 7)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8812-8 (hardback)
1. Communication-Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Mass media-Moral and ethical aspects.
I. Fortner, Robert S. II. Fackler, Mark P.

P94.H354 2011
175dc22

2010043496

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This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs 9781444390605; Wiley Online Library 9781444390629; ePub 9781444390612

Notes on Contributors

Rasha A. Abdulla (PhD University of Miami, 2003) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department of the American University in Cairo. Dr Abdullas research interests include the uses and effects of mass media, new media, intercultural communication, and media diversity and ethics. She is the author of three books and several articles on the Internet and mass media in the Arab world, including The Internet in the Arab World: Egypt and Beyond and Policing the Internet in the Arab World. A native of Egypt, Dr Abdulla is the recipient of several local and international research awards.

Victor Akhterov (DLitt et Phil) is the program director of Radio TEOS, a network of radio stations in Moscow, St Petersburg, and other key cities of Russia. He now resides in the United States and shares his time between Los Angeles and Moscow. His scholarly interests include media studies, Bakhtins ideas of dialog and carnival, and questions of media freedom in Russia.

Ronald C. Arnett (USA, PhD, Ohio University, 1978) is chair and professor of the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University, and is also the universitys Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence. He is the author/co-author of six books and three edited books, including Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffers Rhetoric of Responsibility, for which he received the 2006 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Dr Arnett is the editor of the Review of Communication and executive director of the Eastern Communication Association. His scholarly interests include philosophy of communication, communication ethics, and interpersonal communication.

Zenebe Beyene is a former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism and Communications at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). He is currently studying for his PhD at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He would like to express his heartfelt gratitude to Will Norton, Charlyne Berens, and John Bender for their insightful comments on the manuscript.

Giovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. She is a specialist of Continental philosophy, the aesthetics of architecture, and the philosophy of terrorism. She is the editor of Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy and the author of dozens of essays and two books: The American Philosopher and Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, a philosophy best-seller that appeared in 18 languages.

Michael Bugeja, a dual national of Malta and the United States, is an internationally known ethicist and author of 22 books, including Living Ethics Across Media Platforms and Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age