Communication Ethics and Universal Values

Michael Traber, who died on 25 March 2006, was born and educated in Switzerland. In 1956 he was ordained into the Bethlehem Mission Society from where he went to the USA to study sociology and mass communication at Fordham University and New York University (1956-60). He gained his PhD in mass communication.

Foreword - Seyla Benhabib INTRODUCTION PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK The Problem of Universals in Communication Ethics - Clifford Christians The Moral Dimension of Communicating - Antonio Pasquali Discourse Ethics and Its Relevance for Communication and Media Ethics - Edmund Arens Universal Values and Moral Development Theories - Deni Elliott PART TWO: PROTONORMS ACROSS CULTURES The Basic Norm of Truthfulness - Dietmar Mieth Its Ethical Justification and Universality The Arab-Islamic Heritage in Communication Ethics - Muhammad I Ayish and Haydar Badawi Sadig Ethics and the Discourse on Ethics in Post-Colonial India - Anantha Sudhaker Babbili Three Axiological Proposals for Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context - Gabriel Jaime Perez Communalistic Societies - Andrew A Moemeka Community and Self-Respect as African Values Emergent Values from American Indian Discourse - Cynthia-Lou Coleman PART THREE: APPLICATIONS Communication, Hope and Ethics - Pedro Gomes Communication Ethics in a Changing Chinese Society - Georgette Wang The Case of Taiwan Japanese Style Communication in a New Global Age - Hideo Takeichi Vagaries of Time and Place - Karol Jakubowicz Media Ethics in Poland Accepting the Other - Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson On the Ethics of Intercultural Communication in Ethnographic Film Women, Welfare and the United States Media - Robin Andersen CONCLUSION An Ethics of Communication Worthy of Human Beings - Michael Traber