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Communication Ethics: A Vital Resource in an Ever-Changing World (October 2016): Works Cited

By Robert L. Ballard, Melba Vélez Ortiz, and Leeanne M. Bell McManus

Works Cited: Books

After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future, ed. by Michael J. Hyde and James A. Herrick. Baylor, 2013 (CH, Dec’13, 51-2061).

Andersen, Kenneth. E. Recovering the Civic Culture: The Imperative of Ethical Communication. Pearson, 2005. Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, National Communication Association, November 2003.

Arneson, Pat. Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope. Southern Illinois, 2013.

____. Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility. Southern Illinois, 2005.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Annette M. Holba. An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning. Peter Lang, 2012.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Pat Arneson. Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships. SUNY, 1999.

 Arnett, Ronald C., Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Leeanne M. Bell. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. Sage Publications, 2009.

Arnett, Ronald C., Leeanne M. Bell McManus, and Amanda G. McKendree. Conflict between Persons: The Origins of Leadership. Kendall Hunt, 2014.

Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. by Michael Holquist, tr. by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Texas, 1981.

_____. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, tr. by Vern W. McGee; ed. by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Texas, 1986.

____. Toward a Philosophy of the Act, tr. by Vadim Liapunov; ed. by Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Texas, 1993.

Bauman, Zygmunt. Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World. Blackwell, 2001.

____. Postmodern Ethics. Blackwell, 1993.

Berger, Charles R., and Michael E. Roloff. International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. 3v. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

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____. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. Pantheon, 1983.

Borden, Sandra L. Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press. Ashgate, 2007 (CH, Jun’08, 45-5845).

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Christians, Clifford G., John P. Ferré, and P. Mark Fackler. Good News: Social Ethics and the Press. Oxford, 1993 (CH, Feb’94, 31-3089).

Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality, ed. by Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Ronald C. Arnett. P. Lang, 2008.

Communication Ethics and Crisis: Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres, ed. by S. Alyssa Groom and J. M. H. Fritz. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2012.

Communication Ethics and Universal Values, ed. by Clifford Christians and Michael Traber. Sage Publications, 1997.

Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity, ed. by Josina M. Makau and Ronald C. Arnett. Illinois, 1997.

Credo for Ethical Communication. National Communication Association, 1999. http://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/About_NCA/Leadership_and_Governance/Public_Policy_Platform/PDF-PolicyPlatform-NCA_Credo_for_Ethical_Communication.pdf.

Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies, ed. by Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna. Sage Publications, 2004.

Ercolini, Gina L. Kant’s Philosophy of Communication, Duquesne University Press, 2016.

Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue, ed. by Clifford G. Christians and John C. Merrill. Missouri, 2009.

Ethics & Evil in the Public Sphere: Media, Universal Values & Global Development: Essays in Honor of Clifford G. Christians, ed. by Robert Fortner and Mark Fackler. Hampton Press, 2011.

The Ethics of Intercultural Communication, ed. by Bo Shan and Clifford Christians. Peter Lang, 2015.

Exploring Communication Ethics: Interviews with Influential Scholars in the Field, ed. by Pat Arneson. Peter Lang, 2007.

Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, 1st Eng. ed., ed. by Paul Rabinow; tr. by Robert Hurley et al. New Press, 1997.

Free Speech on Trial: Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions, ed. by Richard A. Parker. Alabama, 2003 (CH, May’04, 41-5564).

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Gehrke, Pat J. The Ethics and Politics of Speech: Communication and Rhetoric in the Twentieth Century. Southern Illinois, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-4846).

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Harvard, 1993.

Gunkel, D. J. The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics. MIT, 2012. CH, May’13, 50-4929)

Habermas, Jürgen. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, tr. by Christian Lenhardt and Shierry Weber Nicholsen. MIT, 1990 (CH, Mar’91, 28-3821).

____. The Theory of Communicative Action, tr. by Thomas McCarthy. Beacon Press, 1984–87 (CH, Sep’88, 26-0604).

The Handbook of Communication Ethics, ed. by George Cheney, Steve May, and Debashish Munshi. Routledge, 2011.

The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, ed. by Robert S. Fortner and P. Mark Fackler. 2v. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics, ed. by Lee Wilkins and Clifford G. Christians. Routledge, 2009 (CH, Feb’09, 46-3076).

Holba, Annette M. Transformative Leisure: A Philosophy of Communication. Marquette, 2013.

Hyde, Michael J. The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate  South Carolina, 2001 (CH, Jul’01, 38-6114).

____. The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment: A Philosophical and Rhetorical Inquiry. Purdue, 2006 (CH, Sep’06, 44-0241).

____. Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human. Baylor, 2010 (CH, Dec’10, 48-1993).

____. Perfection, Postmodern Culture and the Biotechnology Debate. Pearson, 2009. http://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/Convention_and_Events/Annual_Convention/PDF-Convention-Carroll_C_Arnold_Lecture_2007.pdf.

Jaksa, James A., and Michael S. Pritchard. Communication Ethics: Methods of Analysis. Wadsworth, 1988; 2nd ed., 1994.

Johannesen, Richard L. Ethics in Human Communication. Waveland Press, 1975; 6th ed., also written by Kathleen S. Valde and Karen E. Whedbee, 2008.

Jovanovic, Spoma. Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro. Arkansas Press, 2012.

Lane, Shelley D., Ruth Anna Abigail, and John Casey Gooch. Communication in a Civil Society. Pearson, 2013.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence, tr. by Alphonso Lingis. Duquesne, 1998.

____. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, tr. by Alphonso Lingis. Duquesne, 1969.

Lipari, Lisbeth. Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement. Penn State, [2014] (CH, Jan’15, 52-2338).

Maclntyre, Alasdair C. After Virtue. Notre Dame, 1981; 2nd ed., 1984.

Makau, Josina M., and Debian L. Marty. Dialogue and Deliberation. Waveland Press, 2013.

Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics, ed. by Sharon L. Bracci and Clifford G. Christians. P. Lang, 2002.

Murray, Jeffrey W. Face to Face in Dialogue: Emmanuel Levinas and (the) Communication (of) Ethics. University Press of America, 2003.

Neher, William W., and Paul J. Sandin. Communicating Ethically: Character, Duties, Consequences and Relationships. Pearson, Allyn & Bacon, 2007.

Noddings, Nel. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. California, 1984; 2nd ed., with a new preface, 2003.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Beacon Press, 1995 (CH, Sep’96, 34-0111).

Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication, ed. by Pat Arneson. Purdue, 2007 (CH, Nov’07, 45-1294).

Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other, ed. by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson. Fairleigh Dickinson, [2014].

Pinchevski, Amit. By Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication. Duquesne, 2005 (CH, Jun’06, 43-5828).

Plaisance, Patrick Lee. Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 (CH, Feb’15, 52-2936).

Problematic Relationships in the Workplace, ed. by Janie M. Harden Fritz and Becky L. Omdahl. 2v. Peter Lang, 2006–2012.

Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions, ed. by Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles. Michigan State, 2009 (CH, Feb’10, 47-2992).

Ramsey, Ramsey Eric. The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication and the Groundwork for an Ethics of Relief. Humanities Press, 1998.

Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Belknap, Harvard, 1971; rev. ed., 1999 (CH, Mar’00, 37-4151).

The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community, ed. by Rob Anderson, Kenneth N. Cissna, and Ronald C. Arnett. Hampton Press, 1994.

Scanlon, T. M.  What We Owe to Each Other. Belknap, Harvard, 1998 (CH, Feb'00,  37-3303). 

Schrag, Calvin O. Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity. Indiana, 1986.

____. The Self after Postmodernity. Yale, 1997 (CH, Sep’97, 35-0221).

Seeger, Matthew W. Ethics and Organizational Communication. Hampton Press, 1997.

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Tompkins, Paula S. Practicing Communication Ethics: Development, Discernment, and Decision-Making. Allyn & Bacon, 2011.

Turpin, Paul. The Moral Rhetoric of Political Economy: Justice and Modern Economic Thought. Routledge, 2011.

Works Cited: Chapters and Journal Articles

Anderson, K. “A Code of Ethics for Speech Communication.” Spectra 20 (January 1984): 2–3. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED432789.pdf.

Casmir, Fred L. “Third-Culture Building: A Paradigm Shift for International and Intercultural Communication.” Communication Yearbook 16 (1993): 407-428. Annual.

Christians, Clifford G. “Fifty Years of Scholarship in Media Ethics.” Journal of Communication 27 (December 1977): 19–29.

____. “Ubuntu and Communitarianism in Media Ethics.” Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies 25, no. 2 (December 2003): 235–256.

Christians, Clifford G., and Edmund B. Lambeth. “The Status of Ethics Instruction in Communication Departments.” Communication Education 45, no. 3 (1996): 236–243.

Communication and Ethics, Part I,” ed. by Lea Stewart. The Electronic Journal of Communication 6, no.4 (1996).

Communication and Ethics, Part II,” ed. by Lea Stewart. The Electronic Journal of Communication 7, no.1 (1997).

Couldry, Nick. “Living Well and through Media.” In Ethics of Media, ed. by Nick Couldry, Amit Pinchevski, and Mirca Madianou. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

Fox, Michael V. “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric.” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 1, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 9–22.

Fritz, Janie M. Harden. “Interpersonal Communication Ethics.” In International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, 889–902. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Jensen, J. Vernon. “An Analysis of Recent Literature on Teaching Ethics in Public Address.” Speech Teacher 8, no. 3 (1959): 219–228.

____.”Teaching Ethics in Speech Communication.” Communication Education 34, no. 4 (1985): 324–330.

Johnson, R. C. “Teaching Speech Ethics in the Beginning Speech Course.” Speech Teacher 19, no. 1 (1970): 58–61.

Jovanovic, Spoma. “The Ethics of Teaching Communication Activism.” In Teaching Communication Activism: Communication Education for Social Justice, ed. by Lawrence R. Frey and David L. Palmer. Hampton Press, [2014].

Lind, Rebecca Ann, Tammy Swenson-Lepper, and David L. Rarick. “Identifying Patterns of Ethical Sensitivity in TV News Viewers: An Assessment of Some Critical Viewing Skills.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 42, no. 4 (1998): 507–519.

Ramsey, Ramsey Eric. “Ethics from the Edge: A Sketch of Precarity from a Philosophy of Communication.” Atlantic Journal of Communication 24, no. 1 (2016): 31–39.

Swenson-Lepper, T. “Ethical Sensitivity, Cognitive Mapping, and Organizational Communication: A Different Approach to Studying Ethics in Organizations.” Electronic Journal of Communication 6. Accessed April 4, 2016, http://www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/006/4/00641.

Swenson-Lepper, Tammy, et al. “Communication Ethics in the Communication Curriculum: United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.” Communication Education 64, no. 4 (2015). http://works.bepress.com/melbavelezortiz/12/.