An engaging and original study of current issues in media ethics, this book challenges students to explore the relationship between media ethics and social change. It considers the potentially beneficial uses of media practice for humanity, addressing questions of inclusivity and diversity and specialist topics that are absent from other texts. Using case studies and exercises based on real-life experiences of journalists, newsmakers, policy makers and consumers, Valerie Alia invites readers to examine current media practice and develop strategies for ethical problem solving and decision-making.
This book provides a wealth of evidence for the centrality and the need for ethics across all genres of journalistic and media activity. It brings theory and practice together in accessible and practical ways, and offers a rich resource for further work in the form of valuable appendices and practical exercises. The book will be of real use in the introduction of ethics to theoretical and practical university courses in journalism and media studies, but it will also work for industry and community training programs: and that is quite an accomplishment.
Valeria Alia's book is an ambitious attempt to look at media ethics from social scientific, philosophical and vocational perspectives… The book successfully negotiates the rocky path between vocational and academic life, demonstrating how in the media field an awareness of both is required to inform the protagonist.'