TY - BOOK AU - Christians, Clifford G. TI - Media ethics and global justice in the digital age SN - 9781316606391 AV - P 94 .C47 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press KW - DIGITAL MEDIA -- POLITICAL ASPECTS N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- The technological problem: instrumentalism and its cognates -- The ethics of being -- Ethics of truth -- Ethics of human dignity -- Ethics of nonviolence -- Cosmopolitan justice and its agency -- Afterword N2 - Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, human dignity, and non-violence - and shows how these principles can be applied across a wide range of cases and domains. The book is a guide for media professionals, scholars, and educators who are concerned with the global ramifications of new technologies and with creating a more just world ER -