3rd edition. — Routledge, 2020. — 361 p. — ISBN: 0367354306, 9780367354305.
Communication Ethics provides a broad introduction to the ethical nature of communication. The book combines coverage of the major systems of ethical reasoning with lots of applications, including case studies in each chapter, to investigate ethics within many fields in the discipline: rhetoric, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, political communication, and mass communication/media. By incorporating a simple framework for ethical reasoning, the reader will be able to develop their own understanding of the various criteria for making ethical judgments.
Introduction to Communication Ethics
Theories and Perspectives
Character in Communication and Virtue Ethics
Duties
Consequences
Relationships
Contemporary Challenges
Issues, Settings, and Applications
Applied and Professional Ethics
Ethics in Interpersonal Communication: Relationship and Character
Ethics and the Communication of Diversity
Communication Ethics and Disabilities
Ethical Issues in Mass Communication
Ethics of Political Communication
Ethics in Organizational Communication
Ethics and Communication Technology
Capstone