{"title":"Emerging Scholars Examine a New Ethical Landscape","authors":"D. Blake","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.922013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.922013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114222481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘One Night of Prime Time’: An Explorative Study of Morality in One Night of Prime Time Television","authors":"S. Daalmans, Ellen Hijmans, F. Wester","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.918498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.918498","url":null,"abstract":"Research into television's ethical value has mostly focused on scandal genres, such as Big Brother, Jersey Shore, and Jerry Springer. Only recently have researchers started to explore television's moral content with a broader focus. In this study we explore and describe the types of morality and moral content of a night of Dutch prime time television with an open and inductive approach through a qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed 13 types of morality and a basic differentiation between morals that react on violations and transgressions, focusing on restricting behavior, and morals that are focused on ideals and values and stimulate social behavior. Lastly, we differentiated three moral meta-themes that permeate all genres, as well as six moral themes that arose only in specific genre-clusters.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115751111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dark Side of the Online Self: A Pragmatist Critique of the Growing Plague of Revenge Porn","authors":"Scott R. Stroud","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.917976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.917976","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to understand and critique the growing online trend of “revenge porn,” or the intentional embarrassment of identifiable individuals through the posting of nude images online. This posting of intimate pictures, often done out of motives of revenge for perceived relational scorn, is enhanced by the varying levels of online anonymity. Using the theoretical framework of John Dewey's pragmatism, this study both analyzes this understudied but complex new problem precipitated by the conditions of the online self and establishes the groundwork for the use of pragmatist ethics in other areas of communication ethics.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124043299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethical Roots of the Public Forum: Pragmatism, Expressive Freedom, and Grenville Clark","authors":"D. S. Allen","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.919231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.919231","url":null,"abstract":"The public forum has been connected to the functioning of democracy, expressive freedom, and the media's role in society. While the public forum's legal contours have been examined, the ethical foundation of the public forum has not. Relying on archival research, this article argues that ideas about the public forum can be traced to the pragmatism of Grenville Clark, who influenced ideas about the public forum through his work on the American Bar Association's Bill of Rights Committee.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115211665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Civility in the Professions","authors":"S. Scales","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.922012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.922012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132033205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covering Rape in Shame Culture: Studying Journalism Ethics in India's New Television News Media","authors":"S. Rao","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.918497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.918497","url":null,"abstract":"In studying the ethics of journalistic practices of the newly globalized and liberalized Indian television news media in the aftermath of the events surrounding a rape that occurred in Delhi, India, on December 16, 2012, the author argues that the Indian television news media's portrayal and coverage of rape is narrowly focused on sexual violence against middle-class and upper-caste women and avoids discussing violence against poor, rural, lower-class, lower-caste, and otherwise marginalized women. The prevalence of shame culture, which views the presence of women in the public space with hostility, is both countered and perpetuated by the television media. If inclusiveness, human dignity, and the ideal of giving space to multiple voices are to be considered ethical precepts for global media, India's television news media fails to achieve such inclusiveness in its portrayal of and reporting on sexual violence, and thus perpetuates a pro-affluent bias.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133503109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Ethics and Law: Together, but Unequal","authors":"Genelle I. Belmas","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.922011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.922011","url":null,"abstract":"trying to track the authors’ arguments across contexts and continents in order to make sense of what issues are applicable to where. The chapter on shield laws is especially problematic in this regard and inadvertently serves to suggest the incompatibility of blending ethical and legal discussions (and, perhaps, global approaches to ethics). For my liking, the authors tended to err too much on the “ethical dilemmas” side of the ethics equation, and broader issues about the roles and responsibilities of journalism as an institution tended to play second fiddle to meanderings around “what to do when faced with x?” The last chapter provides as thorough a framework for a decision-making process as I have seen in any ethics text, yet it is curiously light on ethics theory. This is all the more disappointing as the earlier chapters make a forceful case for theory as “an important foundation for journalists and journalism students” (p. 7) and the fascinating—and, for me, wholly sound—dialectic approach seems an afterthought. There is thus something of a disconnect between how the book begins and how it ends. It seems to me that there are probably two separate works at play in this text; the first, an examination of the contribution of (Marxist) historical materialism to journalism ethics and, second, a text helping journalism students and professionals navigate ethical dilemmas. Separately, they would be strong works (the first would contribute substantively to normative theory). Together, however, we seem to get the best of neither. That said, this text is engagingly written and thorough. It would appeal to students and professionals. The global approach is to be commended for its ambition, even if it raises some problems. Overall, however, I was left wishing that the critical edge introduced early in the book had been forcefully maintained throughout. For this reviewer, this was a missed opportunity.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"22 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133204894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advocate, Hack or Flack: Ethics Questioned for an Environmental Journalist/Blogger and a Coal Public Relations Exec","authors":"Ginny Whitehouse, N. Wade","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.891945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.891945","url":null,"abstract":"The Journal of Mass Media Ethics publishes case studies in which scholars and media professionals outline how they would address a particular ethical problem. Cases are drawn from actual experience in newsrooms, corporations, entertainment arenas, and other agencies. We invite readers to call our attention to current cases and issues. (There is a special need for good cases in advertising and public relations.) We also invite suggestions of names of people, both professionals and academicians, who might write commentaries. Cases and commentaries in previous editions have addressed ethical issues about which many professionals and academics generally agree. This is not one of those times. The writers here have strong and differing opinions about public relations tactics and strategies, how ethics codes should be applied, who constitutes a journalist, and when someone can be quoted. We welcome this debate and discussion.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121747887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Views on Media Ethics and Societal Functions among Students in Singapore","authors":"B. Detenber, Sonny Rosenthal","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.893776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.893776","url":null,"abstract":"This panel study assessed changes in ethical ideology and beliefs about the societal function of media over the course of undergraduate communication education in Singapore. First, students' agreement with the ethical principles of truth telling, independence, and accountability increased. Second, change in agreement with the ethical principle of minimizing harm was negatively related to change in justification of contentious newsgathering methods. Third, belief that the media should function as a watchdog increased and that it should serve national development decreased. Change in these variables was inversely correlated. We relate these findings to global contexts and make recommendations for curriculum development.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114205573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Propaganda","authors":"K. Crowley","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.893781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.893781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124726376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}