Communication and media ethics in South Africa
By: editor Nathalie Hyde-Clarke
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Claremont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780702178092
Subjects: Journalistic ethics; Mass media
Description: Communication and Media Ethics in South Africa is essential reading for all future and current practitioners and researchers in the field of ethics, as it explores the scope and effectiveness of principles and practices across a vast range of issues and topics pertinent to South Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(p. [284]-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- The; title: fine print: media and communication ethics -- -- Section 1:; title: Theoretical debates -- -- Chapter one:; title: Whose ethics are they, anyway? -- -- Chapter two:; title: Normative media theory in a changed media landscape and globalised society -- -- In Practice 1:; title: Socialmedia and ethics -- -- Chapter three:; title: Between proceduralism and substantialism in communication ethics -- -- Chapter four:; title: (Afri)ethics, communitarianism and the public sphere -- -- Section 2:; title: Press councils and the role of the ombudsman -- -- Chapter five:; title: Southern African press councils: accountability in practice -- -- Chapter six:; title: Press councils and the democratic political landscape in South Africa  -- -- In Practice 2:; title: How internal news ombudsmen can strengthen media ethics and understanding -- -- Section 3: -- A; title: selection of ethical concerns and debates in South Africa -- -- Section 3:1:; title: Political concerns -- -- Chapter seven:; title: Analysing ethics and political bias in South African news media -- -- Chapter eight:; title: When the public interest is not what interests the public: an investigation of privacy as media ethic in contemporary South Africa -- -- Section 3:2:; title: Economic concerns -- -- Chapter nine:; title: Chequebook journalism: a South African picture -- -- Chapter ten:; title: Ethics in business journalism -- -- Chapter eleven:; title: Ethical corporate communication cultures within brand environments -- -- Section 3:3:; title: Social concerns -- -- Chapter twelve:; title: Ethics and the need to understand culture -- -- Chapter thirteen:; title: Reporting HIV/AIDS: an unprecedented ethical challenge -- -- Chapter fourteen:; title: Contesting the electricity supply in South African media ---- Bibliography-- Index.