Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework
designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media,
including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role
of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the
public good and as businesses run for profit, to specific morally
problematic practices and question how ethical behavior can be promoted
within the industry.
- Brings together experts in the fields of media studies and media
ethics, information ethics, and professional ethics
- Offers an original ethical framework designed specifically for
evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media
- Builds upon and further develops an innovative theoretical model for
examining and evaluating media corruption and methods of media
anti-corruption previously developed by authors Spence and Quinn
- Discloses and clarifies the inherent ethical nature of information and
its communication to which the media as providers of information are
necessarily committed
