3rd Edition
Practicing Communication Ethics Development, Discernment, and Decision Making
Part One: Developing a Practice of Communication Ethics
1.The Centrality of Ethics in Human Communication
2. Developing a Personal Ethical Standard for Human Communication
3. Ethical Reasoning About Human Communication
4. Six Ethical Values of Human Communication
5. Applying Values and Principles in Ethical Reasoning
Part Two: Applying Ethical Theories to Human Communication
6. Traditional Approaches to Ethical Theory
7. Contemporary Alternatives to Modernist Ethical Theories
Part Three: Four Contexts of Ethical Communication Practice
8. Communication Ethics and Digital Communication
9. Communication Ethics and Community
10. Communication Ethics and Intercultural Communication
11. Your Practice of Communication Ethics
Biography
Paula S. Tompkins is Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State University, USA.
"Tompkins demonstrates deep understanding of communication ethics and moral psychology in Practicing Communication Ethics: Development, Discernment, and Decision-Making. The text provides students with invaluable opportunities to understand the value of mindfulness and moral emotions when discerning whether ethical issues exist and when making moral choices in, through, and about communication." — Tammy Swenson Lepper, Winona State University, USA
Praise for the Second Edition:
"This book offers a rich examination of its topic’s application to the teaching and research agendas of interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, organization communication, and rhetorical theory and criticism. Tompkins emphasizes that the practice of communication ethics is important for cultivating the moral ecology of communal life." — Michael J. Hyde, Wake Forest University, USA
