Tompkins, Paula S.,

Practicing communication ethics : development, discernment, and decision making / Paula S. Tompkins. - Second edition. - xviii, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Practicing Communication Ethics: Development, Discernment, and Decision Making, provides a theoretical framework for developing a personal standard of ethics that can be applied in everyday communication situations. This second edition focuses on how the reader's communication matters ethically in co-creating their relationships, family, workgroups and communities. Through an examination of ethical values including truth, justice, freedom, care, integrity, and honor, the reader can determine which values they are ethically committed to upholding. Blending communication theory, ethics as practical philosophy, and moral psychology, the text presents the practice of communication ethics as part of the lifelong process of personal development and fosters the ability in its readers to approach communication decision-making through an ethical lens"--


In English

9781138233942 (pbk.) 9781138243415 (hbk.)

2018003146


Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

P94 / .T65 2019

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