Media ethics theorizing, reoriented: : A shift in focus for individual-level analyses

• Autores: Patrick Lee Plaisance
• Localización: Journal of Communication, ISSN-e 1460-2466, Vol. 66, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 454-474
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This project argues that multidisciplinary methods and work to reconsider key concepts are critical if media ethics scholarship is to continue to mature. It identifies 3 dimensions of a reoriented framework for media ethics theory: one that conceptualizes moral motivation as the focus of inquiry at the individual level; another that focuses on promising assessments of autonomy and organizational influences for a transformed media landscape; and a third that applies formalist virtue ethics as the best framework for normative claims arising from the first 2.