1st Edition

Media Challenges to Digital Flourishing

Edited By Sandra Borden Copyright 2025
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

This book engages broadly with the impacts of media practices on our prospects for thriving as moral beings in today’s digital spaces. It brings together senior and junior scholars in communication and philosophy originally convened for a symposium on the theme of Media Challenges to Digital Flourishing. Using perspectives ranging from virtue ethics and media sociology to care ethics and moral... Read more

Introduction
Sandra L. Borden

1. Duty Now and for the Future: Communication, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
David J. Gunkel


2. Civil Deliberation Unpacked: An Empirical Investigation
Michel Croce, Filippo Domaneschi and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza


3. Virtual Virtue? Opportunities and Challenges in Explicating Intellectual Virtues
Through Journalistic Exemplars in the Digital Network
David A. Craig and Casey Yetter


4. Reclaiming Media: Answering Surveillance Capitalists with Care-Based Democracy
Joseph Jones


5. The Problem with Apu: Recognizing Moral Issues in Media Ethics
Bastiaan Vanacker


6. Autonomy in Local Digital News: An Exploration of Organizational and Moral Psychology Factors
Rhema Zlaten

 

 

Biography

Sandra L. Borden is professor of communication and director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University. Her books include the award-winning Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press (2007, Ashgate; 2009, Routledge) and The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty (2022).