Synopses & Reviews
A student-friendly, theoretically engaged application of communication ethics to a variety of communicative contextsThis comprehensive and engaging treatment of communication ethics combines student application and theoretical engagement. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference reviews classic communication ethics approaches and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Introducing communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, the authors offer a learning model that frames communication ethics as arising from a set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structures that guide human life. Key Features Identifies major metaphors in each chapter to promote student interest and allow for better comprehension of key concepts Applies theory to everyday life with examples drawn from multiple perspectives including education and personal as well as professional life Presents The Dialogic Learning Model as a framework for the book, offering guidelines for ethical decision making in each of several communicative contexts such as interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational Includes a humanities case study, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, as a classic example of ethical struggles that constitute the human condition Intended Audience This core text is designed for the undergraduate course in Communication Ethics, as well as other communication courses where ethics is a major portion of study.
Synopsis
Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue & Difference offers a learning model of communication ethics literacy from a dialogic perspective, framing communication ethics as arising from a good or set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structures that guide human life. Communication ethics protects and promotes a particular good or goods through communicative action. We examine multiple approaches to communication ethics, revealing the good protected and promoted by each ethical perspective. We assume that discourse is not neutral and always carries a substantive and/or procedural good. In particular communicative contexts, a communication ethic protects and promotes a good particular to that context-for example, the good of relationship is protected and promoted in the context of interpersonal communication; in organizational contexts, the good protected and promoted is a dwelling place. The book frames the pragmatic need for this historical moment as dialogic learning about one's own narrative ground and associated goods protected and promoted through communicative action, and attentiveness to the narrative ground of the Other. We engage narrative and virtue contention with pragmatic hopefulness that, in learning from the Other, we will make understanding and learning the central goods of communication ethics in an era defined by difference.
Synopsis
This comprehensive and engaging treatment of communication ethics combines student application and theoretical engagement. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference reviews classic communication ethics approaches and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Introducing communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, the authors offer a learning model that frames communication ethics as arising from a set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structures that guide human life.