#📓 #📄 #🟡 # Communication Ethics: A Vital Resource in an Ever-Changing World ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 06, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️[[ethics]] **Authors:** [[Robert L. Ballard]], Melba Vélez Ortiz, Leeanne M. Bell McManus **Citation:** Ballard, R. L., Ortiz, M. V., & McManus, L. M. B. (2016). Communication Ethics: A Vital Resource in an Ever-Changing World. _Choice_, _54_(2), 155-158,160-164. --- # Summary Bibliographic essay that offers a brief history of communication ethics and discusses the scope and some of the important research of the field. # Notes #### p. 155 - [[Communication ethics]] examines how we can coexist amid differences in a world without universal ethics > A key component of ethics deals with communicating our chosen commitments, justifying our actions, and dealing with challenges to our assumptions. ([Ballard et al 2016:155](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=1)) #### p. 156 - Communication ethics was professionalized in the mid-1980s. Established idea that ethics is central to communication. [[Credo for Ethical Communication]] adopted in 1999. ([note on p.156](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=2)) #### p. 157 - [[dialogic communication ethics|Dialogic ethics]] is communication ethics' most significant contribution. - [[Martin Buber]] - [[Emmanuel Levinas]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]] Contemporary thinkers have examined [[dialogue]] as an ethical form of communication. ([note on p.157](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=3)) #### p. 158 - [[dialogic communication ethics|Dialogic communication ethics]] flourishes in tension between the theoretical and the applied. Questions ethical theories to generate new perspectives for making good communication choices Investigates past [[moral dilemmas|ethical dilemmas]] to offer guidance for future ehtical choices ([note on p.158](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=4)) #### p. 158 - Media ethics concerns privacy, the public good, individual versus corporate loyalties and the effects of media. ([note on p.158](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=4)) #### p. 159 - [[postmodernity|Postmodernism]] suggests that humans are exist as communicative beings and are therefore interdependent, interrelated, culturally situated and irrational. Ethical choices not purely based on reason, but on how we respond to others in a particular context. ([note on p.159](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=5)) #### p. 160 - Case studies are an important tool in communication ethics. They describe the context that leads to [[moral dilemmas|ethical dilemmas]], the difficulty of moral choices, and the outcomes associated with those choices. Also highlight subjective nature of ethical decisions and courage needed to make them. ([note on p.160](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=6)) #### p. 160 - Rhetorical approaches to ethics focus on how messages are delivered given the context, audience and speaker. Considers means of persuasion (logic, emotion, credibility), treatment of the audience, what is emphasized, how people are portrayed, who is included or excluded, and the hidden values and attitudes of the speaker. ([note on p.160](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/4I9A6WB7?page=6)) ## My Questions & Thoughts --- # Other References ## Tags [[ethics]]