Media Studies

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When an earthquake hits her university town, Amy Tyson, a rising senior at Duke University, takes out her camera and begins shooting pictures of the rubble and people she meets. She takes a picture of a woman who is being taken out ...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/ethics-in-photography/case-study

Publication Type: Database
Abstract: The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council maintains a database over 450 cases they have made decisions on regarding ethical complaints they have received against broadcasters under their jurisdiction. The cases cover topics such as v...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/index.php

Authors: Giles, Jim
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature
Abstract: This article presents reports on the new codes issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE.) The London-based COPE, a body established in 1997 to help editors discuss ethical issues, published a draft of the code on its webs...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1038/428005a

Authors: Harris, Charles E. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Rabins, Michael J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case study looks at the New York times coverage of the 1973-1987 Chevrolet and GMC pickup truck controversy. These models had gas tanks on either side of the vehicle, both of which are outside the truck frame, which left it op...
Year: 2000
URL: http://wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/templates/student_resources/0534605796_harris/cases/Cases/case49.htm

Authors: Gordon, Philip ; Barney, Ralph D. ; Wilkins, Lee ; Englehardt, Elaine
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This case study discusses changes which are still being debated for the media industry which would relax the regulations for media ownership, and these changes potential impact on free speech. The case discusses the role of the Fede...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Media%20Ownership%20Past%20Present%20and%20Future.pdf

Authors: Shipley, Linda J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
Abstract: Early studies of academic dishonesty discovered that a large percentage of college students admitted they cheated. Since then, additional studies found even higher numbers of students who report that they cheat, and those students i...
Year: 2009

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Authors: Edelman, David ; North Carolina State University, Graduate School, Preparing Future Leaders
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Secondary Title: Responsible Conduct of Research Modules for the Preparing Future Leaders Program at NSCU
Abstract: This module addresses the complex interface of research and the media. The module discusses the special collaboration between scientists and media and the challenges both face in communicating science to the public at large. The mod...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/preparing-future-leaders/rcr/modules/module_10.doc

Authors: Cheney, George ; Debashish, Munshi ; May, Steve
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: International Communication Association (ICA) handbook series; Variation: ICA handbook series.
Abstract: A comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important q...
Year: 2011

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Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Writers are encouraged to write about what they know to give their work authenticity. The fear of lawsuits, however, gives writers pause when they portray real people or create characters from them. Recently Kathryn Cooper, the aut...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Reading%20Between.pdf

Authors: Spence, Edward
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Using a general model of corruption that explains and accounts for corruption across different corporate and professional activities, the paper will examine how certain practices in the media, especially in areas where journalism, a...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Ms. C. Dolores Tucker, Chairwoman of the National Congress of Black Political Women, was named as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Interscope Records, which accuses her of trying to persuade Interscope's leading producer of Rap t...
Year: 2006
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Gangsta%20Rap.pdf

Authors: Weight, Alden L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article argues that media - which circulates information and entertainment alike - plays a key role in defining social reality and therefore has an ethical obligation to consider the possible implications of that social definit...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Weight_Making_a_Monkey_Look_Good_the_Case_for_Consumer_Ethics_of_Entertainment_Media.pdf

Authors: Canary, Heather E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article describes an effort to infuse ethics into two communications classes, the first, Small Group Communication, a communications course with no prerequisites, and the second, Leadership Communication, which is an upper leve...
Year: 9999
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Canary_Using_an_Ethics_Lens_for_Teaching_Communication_Focus_on_Small_Group_and_Leadership_Communication.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are the producer of a network television program whose main characters are emergency room physicians. Recently a member of your staff has brought to your attention a current article in the New England Journal of Medicine which c...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/ER.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The United States Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of a 1992 federal law, known as the Helms Amendment, intended to regulate indecent programming on cable TV. Under this law, cab...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Helms.pdf

Authors: Association of Practical and Professional Ethics ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Ross, Jeri ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: To some, Oswaldo José Guillén Barrios is a free spirit. To others he is a loose cannon. Many agree, however, that discretion and tact are not his long suits. Guillén is a Venezuelan-born American best known for his career as a major...
Year: 2013
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Free%20Speech%20Gulillen.pdf

Authors: Association of Practical and Professional Ethics ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Ross, Jeri ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jillian, a food blogger, has been invited to dine at a new underground restaurant, yet to open, apparently run by a high-profile celebrity chef. After confirming, Jillian was to receive vouchers for dinner, at any of the chef's rest...
Year: 2013
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Blackstone%20Foods.pdf

Authors: Association of Practical and Professional Ethics ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Ross, Jeri ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Hyman "Big Hy" Strachman is one of the world's busiest bootleggers of pirated movies. Over the past nine years he has sent over 300,000 DVDs of newly released Hollywood movies that he sends to American troops serving in Afghanistan ...
Year: 2013
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Big%20Hy.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Elia Kazan, now 87 years old, was one of the most important American film directors during the 1950's and 1960's, having directed classic films such as On the Waterfront and Viva Zapata, A Streetcar Named Desire, and East of Eden, w...
Year: 1998
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Kazan.pdf