1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics
Introduction Carl Fox and Joe Saunders
Part 1: Freedom of Speech, Privacy, and Censorship
1. Hate Speech and the Limits of Free Speech Gerald Lang
2. Privacy and the Media Kevin Macnish and Haleh Asgarinia
3. The Ethics and Politics of Self-Censorship Matthew Festenstein
4. Academic Freedom and the Duty of Care: Reframing Media Coverage of Campus Controversies Shannon Dea
5. Should We Unbundle Free Speech and Press Freedom? Robert Mark Simpson and Damien Storey
Part II: The News Media
6. Political Legitimacy and the News Media: Four Normative Models of the Political Role of the News Media Jonathan Heawood and Fabienne Peter
7. In the Business of Revealing State Secrets Dorota Mokrosinska
8. The Death Knock: A Legitimate Journalistic Practice? Steven Knowlton and Carl Fox
9. How Just War Theory Can Help Media’s War Coverage Jovana Davidovic
10. Ethical Issues in Science Journalism: The Benefits of Reporting about Value-Laden Judgments Kevin C. Elliott
11. The Ethics of Media Interviewing: Asking Good Questions and Listening to the Answers Susan Notess and Lani Watson
12. What is the Public Interest in Crime News? The Expressive Function of Newsworthiness Christopher Bennett
Part III: Broadening the Scope: Giving Other Aspects of the Media Their Due
13. Complicity and Sports Journalism Tom Bradshaw
14. Satire and Stability Carl Fox
15. The Art of Immoral Artists Shen-yi Liao
16. Ethics of Advertising Jamie Dow
17. "Conspiracy Theories", the Deep State, and the Media David Coady
Part IV: Justice, Power, and Representation
18. Race and the Media: Beyond Defensiveness Carl Fox
19. Tragedy and Inspiration: The Epistemic Injustice of Stereotypical Media Representations of Disability Jessica Begon
20. Women’s Subordination, Objectification and Silencing: The Role of Pornography Lina Papadaki
21. Sport and Re-creation in the Media Stephen Mumford and Sheree Bekker
22. Class, Inequality, and the Media Faik Kurtulmus and Jan Kandiyali
23. Break the Long Lens of the Law! From Police Propaganda to Movement Media Koshka Duff
Part V: Vice and Virtue Online
24. The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online Joe Saunders
25. Online Shaming’s Invisible Harms Karen Adkins
26. The Only Reason to Do Anything: Online Trolling as the Deceptive Disruption of Joint Action Étienne Brown
27. The Ethics and Epistemology of Deepfakes Taylor Matthews and Ian James Kidd
28. Scrolling Towards Bethlehem: Conforming to Authoritarian Social Media Laws Yvonne Chiu
29. Keep Quiet Inside the Echo Chamber: The Ethics of Posting on Social Media Yuval Avnur
30. New Media and Manipulation Samantha Bradshaw and Massimo Renzo.
Index
Biography
Carl Fox is a lecturer in the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Centre at the University of Leeds, UK. He works on a range of topics in political philosophy, with a special focus on the ethics of the public sphere. Along with Joe Saunders, he co-edited Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy (2019).
Joe Saunders is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He works on ethics and agency in Kant and the post-Kantian tradition, as well as media ethics and the philosophy of love. With Carl Fox he previously edited the 2019 Routledge collection, Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy.
