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Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research
by Wolff-Michael Roth Randy YerrickEstablishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. The contributors--some of the top educational researchers, linguists, and science educators in the world--represent a variety of perspectives pertaining to teaching, assessment, research, learning, and reform. As a whole the book explores the variety, complexity, and interconnectivity of issues associated with changing classroom learning communities and transforming science classroom discourse to be more representative of the discourse of scientific communities. The intent is to expand debate among educators regarding what constitutes exemplary scientific speaking, thinking, and acting. This book is unparalleled in discussing current reform issues from sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspectives. The need for a revised perspective on enduring science teaching and learning issues is established and a theoretical framework and methodology for interpreting the critique of classroom and science discourses is presented. To model and scaffold this ongoing debate, each chapter is followed by a "metalogue" in which the chapter authors and volume editors critique the issues traversed in the chapter by opening up the neatly argued issues. These "metalogues" challenge, extend, and deepen the arguments made. Central questions addressed include: *Why is a sociolinguistic interpretation essential in examining science education reform? *What are key similarities and differences between classroom and scientific communities? *How can the utility of common knowledge and existing classroom discourse be balanced toward alternative outcomes? *What curricular issues are associated with transforming classroom talk? *What other perspectives can assist in creating multiple access to science through redefining classroom discourse? Whether this volume improves readers' science teaching, assists their research, or helps them to better prepare tomorrow's science teachers, the goal is to engage them in considering the challenges faced by educators as they navigate the seas of reform and strive to improve science education for all.
Establishing a Mechanism-Based Framework for the Corpus-Informed Analysis of Multi-Word Discourse Markers (BestMasters)
by Jan-Friso HeerenThis book establishes and applies a linguistic framework for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of multi-word discourse markers (MWDMs). The aim of this study is to examine in detail how MWDMs have developed out of their polysemous lexical counterparts. First, this study critically evaluates existing Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization theories addressing both their strengths and drawbacks. In the following, a revised Pragmaticalization approach is developed. Considering three linguistic dimensions, this approach consists of six mechanisms: Discursivization & Scope Extension (semantic dimension), Syntactic Isolation & Acategorialization (syntactic dimension) and Consistency & Prosodic Accentuation (phonological dimension). Using data from the Oxford Etymological Dictionary and the TV Corpus, the study then applies these mechanisms to the MWDMs by the way, all the same and what is more. Providing a detailed corpus-informed analysis of these units, this book demonstrates the advantages of the suggested framework and consequently offers an innovative contribution to the field of linguistics.
Estamos de paso: La vida tiene un sentido pero caminamos sin brújula
by Mar Comín Pascual ComínLa vida tiene un sentido, pero caminamos sin brújula. Este libro es un mano a mano con mi padre. Él reflexiona sobre la vida y la evolución. Yo, sobre la muerte y la adaptación. Este libro es un cara a cara con el duelo. Sin embargo, no es un libro triste. <P><P>Este libro es el manual que, desde que mi padre murió, me recuerda la mejor de sus lecciones: «Hoy es el aquí y ahora. Vive intensamente. Sin apego al pasado ni miedo al porvenir. Y agradece, cada día, las pequeñas cosas de este fantástico regalo que es la vida». <P><P>La contrapartida de tener a un padre tan grande es lo mucho que se le echa de menos. He conseguido ser una niña hasta los cuarenta. Ahora, Peter Pan crece. De repente. «Ya que nos hallamos de paso temporal por el cosmos, admitamos que somos una chispa del más hermoso y fantástico regalo de la Vida (en mayúsculas). Hasta siempre, porque cada día nos reencontraremos en la alegría centelleante de la Vida y de las estrellas.»Pascual Comín
Estamos vivos (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by David RemnickEl fascinante perfil de The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, realizado por David Remnick. Una noche de 1957, un niño llamado Bruce Springsteen se quedó embobado viendo a Elvis Presley en la televisión y le confesó a su madre que así quería ser de mayor. Más de medio siglo más tarde The Boss se ha convertido en una de las leyendas más sólidas del rock, llenando estadios en medio mundo y extendiendo la tradición alternativa del rock como una forma del progresismo político, en sus palabras «una forma de denunciar la distancia entre la retórica y la realidad de Estados Unidos». David Remnick, una leyenda del periodismo estadounidense, acompañó a Springsteen en los ensayos y parte de la gira mundial que emprendió en 2012. Estamos vivos es el fascinante retrato de artista maduro, una obra maestra del periodismo narrativo.
Este infierno mío
by Julián MalatestaUna novela poderosa y sorprendente sobre el conflicto armado colombiano. En esta novela El ejército y La Fuerza (la guerrilla) libran combates sangrientos ya por inercia, como signados por un destino inevitable, y prácticamente sin recordar las motivaciones por las cuales empuñan las armas, o sin ya creer en ellas. Les queda, por fortuna, una vida que sí intentan entender y en la que sí creen poder incidir, una vida rica en la que confluyen sus amores, sus miedos, sus alegrías, y en la que el odio y las discordias sólo surgen por razones personales y, en definitiva, más humanas. En esta historia "El Gavilán" comandante de La Fuerza lucha hace años en el monte en nombre de los pobres, es una leyenda viva. Como Odiseo, dejó atrás a su esposa y a su hijo esperándolo. Raquel, como Penélope, le ha sido fiel desde que lo conoció con la esperanza de que algún día volverá. Y Domingo, su hijo, solo lo conoce a través de los relatos que de él le hace Alirio, compañero de armas del comandante y amigo de Raquel.
Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare
by Jean H. Hagstrummagisterial book by one of our most distinguished literary historians, Esteem Enlivened by Desire illuminates (and celebrates) the ideal of lasting love from antiquity to the high Renaissance. Love that leads to marriage is a relatively recent "invention," or so critics and historians often say. But in this remarkable survey, Jean H. Hagstrum argues that long-term commitment formed of friendship and passion is one of Western culture's oldest and richest concepts. Hagstrum looks mainly at depictions of love in art and literature, works of the imagination that reflect social reality but also often transcend it to challenge restrictive codes and open up new possibilities for human nature. Among these possibilities, the association of esteem with sexual desire is one of the most invigorating that artists and thinkers have ever addressed. Tracing this motif through many different kinds of expression—from the Homeric epics, the Oresteia, Augustine's Confessions to the stories of Ovid, the Decameron, the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare—Hagstrum also illuminates a number of related themes, including other forms of relationship, from friendship to lust; marriage for political ends; liaisons with the same sex; and the presence of passion in religious commitment. The culmination of Hagstrum's long career, Esteem Enlivened by Desire offers generous insight into the amorous heritage of the West—and honors one of its most important, enduring, and hard-won achievements.
Estilo rico, estilo pobre
by Luis MagrinyàTodas las claves para expresarse y escribir mejor Un libro práctico, riguroso y divertida sobre los buenos y malos usos del lenguaje Nueva edición revisada y ampliada ¿Son los sinónimos la panacea del buen estilo? Tratando de lograr cierta intensidad ¿no caemos en ocasiones en la redundancia? ¿El miedo a las palabras «vulgares» nos condena a una cómica pretensión de estilo «elevado»? Es indudable que a la hora de expresarnos formalmente todos procuramos hacerlo bien, y que tenemos en la cabeza una serie de consignas sobre qué significa eso. Estilo rico, estilo pobre —publicado originalmente en 2015 y que ahora se presenta en una edición revisada y ampliada— plantea hasta qué punto están bien encaminadas tales consignas. No se trata del típico manual de estilo que indica si infanta se escribe con mayúscula o minúscula, si el gentilicio de París es parisino o parisién, o si guion va con o sin tilde, sino que propone una serie de observaciones útiles, divertidas y razonadas para invitarnos a pensar un poco en la lengua. Muchas de ellas están basadas en numerosos ejemplos de textos literarios y periodísticos, pero otras están tomadas de la vida cotidiana, es decir, no son obra de profesionales. El autor, Luis Magrinyà, actúa en este libro como un observador de la lengua: recomienda evitar usos cansinos, perezosos e irreflexivos, y señala también las tentaciones que acechan en el camino de la prosa «elegante y bonita». Su propósito principal es tranquilizador: ofrecer indicios de que a menudo el estilo no tiene por qué estar donde nos han dicho, y animarnos a que nos liberemos de aquellos prejuicios, muchas veces inconscientes, que limitan nuestra disposición a la hora de expresarnos y escribir bien. La crítica ha dicho:«Ofrece una lección de estilo y de léxico para quienes tienen la escritura como oficio o vocación».Álex Grijelmo, El País «Un “dardo en la palabra” underground».Europa Press «Inteligente y travieso, lleno de observaciones perspicaces y de soluciones para problemas comunes […], Estilo rico, estilo pobre es valioso para escritores, periodistas, traductores, editores y también para cualquiera que se preocupe por la precisión, la claridad y la elegancia del lenguaje».Daniel Gascón, Revista de Libros «Un texto que nos ayuda a no caer en la pedantería».Paula Corroto, elDiario.es «Su texto es más bien lúdico y prescinde de la severidad de los doctrinos y de los togados, a la que es muy propenso el juicio sobre el idioma en estos pagos. No hay nada de eso en el libro, muy entretenido y rebosante de ejemplos, por otra parte».Alejandro Gándara, blog El Escorpión
Estilo rico, estilo pobre: Guía práctica para expresarse y escribir mejor
by Luis MagrinyàUna guía práctica, rigurosa y divertida sobre los buenos y malos usos del lenguajeEs indudable que a la hora de expresarnos formalmente todos procuramos hacerlo bien, y que tenemos en la cabeza una serie de consignas sobre lo que esto significa. Lo que plantea este libro es hasta qué punto están bien encaminadas tales consignas.No se trata del típico manual de estilo que dice si infanta se escribe con mayúscula o minúscula, si el gentilicio de París es parisino o parisién, o si guión va con tilde o sin tilde. Más bien se busca averiguar aquí si es cierto que los sinónimos son la panacea del buen estilo. O si, en busca de la intensidad, a veces no caemos en la más pura redundancia. O si el temor a las palabras "vulgares" no nos condena a veces a una cómica pretensión de estilo "elevado" y tantas otras cosas más.Luis Magrinyà propone una serie de observaciones útiles, divertidas y razonadas, basadas en multitud de ejemplos de textos de grandes (y pequeños) escritores, para invitar a pensar un poco en la lengua. Y, así como recomienda evitar usos cansinos, perezosos e irreflexivos, señala también el sinfín de tentaciones que acechan en el camino de la prosa "fina y bonita". Su propósito principal es tranquilizador: ofrecer indicios de que a menudo el estilo no tiene por qué estar donde nos han dicho, y animar a liberarnos de aquellos prejuicios, tantas veces inconscientes, que limitan nuestra disposición a la hora de expresarnos y escribir bien.
Estilos radicales (Alfaguara/bolsillo Ser.)
by Susan SontagLos ocho ensayos incluidos en este libro son una portentosa muestra de la pluralidad filosófica de Susan Sontag. Estilos radicales (1969), la segunda colección de ensayos de Susan Sontag, extiende las investigaciones apuntadas en Contra la interpretación a nuevas consideraciones sobre el cine Bergman y Godard, la literatura Cioran, la política la guerra de Vietnam y un magnífico estudio sobre la pornografía, «La imaginación pornográfica», por mencionar algunos de los ocho ensayos certeros que contiene este volumen. Reseña:«Susan Sontag es uno de los críticos más valiosos e interesantes que tenemos, una escritora de la que es posible aprender continuamente.»Richard Gilman, The New Republic
Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by Douglas RobinsonDrawing together the estrangement theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Bertolt Brecht with Leo Tolstoy's theory of infection, Douglas Robinson studies the ways in which shared evaluative affect regulates both literary familiarity—convention and tradition—and modern strategies of alienation, depersonalization, and malaise.This book begins with two assumptions, both taken from Tolstoy's late aesthetic treatise What Is Art? (1898): that there is a malaise in culture, and that literature's power to "infect" readers with the moral values of the author is a possible cure for this malaise. Exploring these ideas of estrangement within the contexts of earlier, contemporary, and later critical theory, Robinson argues that Shklovsky and Brecht follow Tolstoy in their efforts to fight depersonalization by imbuing readers with the transformative guidance of collectivized feeling. Robinson's somatic approach to literature offers a powerful alternative to depersonalizing structuralist and poststructuralist theorization without simply retreating into conservative rejection and reaction.Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition.
Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature
by Katarzyna BartoszyńskaTo develop a theory of world literature, this book demands that the theory of the novel can no longer ignore literary forms other than realism.For centuries, the standard account of the development of the novel focused on the rise of realism in English literature. Studies of early novels connected the form to various aspects of British life across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the burgeoning middle class, the growth of individualism, and the emergence of democracy and the nation-state. But as the push for teaching and learning global literature grows, this narrative is insufficient for studying novel forms outside of a predominately English-speaking British and American realm.In Estranging the Novel, Katarzyna Bartoszyńska explores how the emergence and growth of world literature studies has challenged the centrality of British fiction to theories of the novel's rise. She argues that a historicist approach frequently reinforces the realist paradigm that has cast other traditions as "minor," conceding a normative vision of the novel as it seeks to explain why historical forces produced different forms elsewhere. Recasting the standard narrative by looking at different novelistic literary forms, including the Gothic, travel writing, and queer fiction, Bartoszyńska offers a compelling comparative study of Polish and Irish works published across the long nineteenth century that emphasize fictionality, or the problem of world-building in literature.Reading works by Ignacy Krasicki, Jan Potocki, Narcyza Żmichowska, and Witold Gombrowicz alongside others by Jonathan Swift, Charles Maturin, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett, Bartoszyńska shows that the history of the novel's rise demands a more capacious and rigorous approach to form as well as a reconceptualization of the relationship between fiction and its cultural contexts. By modeling such a heterogeneous account of the novel form, Estranging the Novel paves the way for a bracing and diverse understanding of the makeup of contemporary world literature and the many texts it encompasses—and a new perspective on the British novel as well.
Estudio histórico de las lágrimas de Cumella
by Francisco Javier Ramírez LópezUn hombre que jugó a ser cacique, ¿quieres saber cómo? La historia de Canarias está repleta de personajes relevantes que marcaron nuestro devenir. Juan Cumella fue uno de ellos, y Benito Pérez Armas quiso mostrarnos el lado humano de este empresario catalán afincado en nuestro archipiélago, que representó también una característica de nuestra historia contemporánea: el caciquismo. Lo cual hace de esta una obra de consulta complementaria para elalumnado de 2.º de Bachillerato.
Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher
by Lewis ThomasA philologist's gold mine! Thomas recounts the history of the usage of words as well as the etymology of English words. The Latin, Greek and Sanskrit roots are accurate. (Note to parents: this book does cover some words which you might not want your youth to read without your supervision.) Index of English words (back of book) provides a fine resource for students. A funny, informative and creative look at words. A fascinating read.
Eternity's Sunrise
by Leo DamroschWilliam Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience--social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends. Following Blake's life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake's poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author's goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake's imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception.
Ethan Frome (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesEthan Frome (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Edith Wharton Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'
by Marilyn MigielWith The Ethical Dimension of the "Decameron" Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the "Decameron" (winner of the MLA's 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to gain insights into our values, our biases and our decision-making processes, Migiel offers a view of the Decameron as sticky and thorny. According to Migiel, the Decameron catches us as we move through it, obligating us to reveal ourselves, inviting us to reflect on how we form our assessments, and calling upon us to be mindful of our responsibility to judge patiently and carefully. Migiel's focus remains unabashedly on the experience of readers, on the meanings they find in the Decameron, and on the ideological assumptions they have about the way that a literary text such as the Decameron works. She offers that, rather than thinking about the Decameron as "teaching" readers, we should think about it "testing" them.Throughout, Migiel engages in the masterful in-depth rhetorical analyses, delivered in lively and readable prose, that are her trademark. Whether she is examining the Italian of the Decameron, translations of the Italian into English, commentaries by scholars, newspaper articles, or student essays, she asks us always to maintain an ethical engagement with the words of others.
Ethical Diversions: The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Katalin OrbanFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (Studies in Global Science Fiction)
by Zachary Kendal Aisling Smith Giulia Champion Andrew MilnerEthical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.
Ethical Global Citizenship Education (Elements in Intercultural Communication)
by Emiliano T. BosioGlobal Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE framework grounded in critical, cosmopolitan, humanistic, value-creating, and transformative principles. Guided by those principles, ethical GCE goes beyond the banking model of education by emphasising a global ethic. Ethical GCE is inclusive, ethically reflective, and socially responsible. It extends beyond imparting knowledge and employable skills, important as they are, focusing on holistic and sustainable development. With further theoretical development and implementation strategies, the ethical GCE framework holds promise for future research and evaluation of the intricate teaching and learning processes within global citizenship, particularly from a values-based perspective.
Ethical Issues for Esl Faculty: Social Justice in Practice
by Johnnie Johnson Hafernik Stephanie Vandrick Dorothy S. MesserschmittThis book explicitly addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that post-secondary ESL faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns. Ethics is defined broadly, to include responsibilities and obligations to students inside and outside the classroom, as well to colleagues, educational institutions, the TESL profession, and society as a whole. Scenarios in each chapter provide realistic and compelling situations for reflection and discussion. The authors then set out the issues raised, relate them to the classroom environment, and offer opportunities to examine them in a variety of contexts and to consider possible solutions to the dilemmas. Issues include testing, plagiarism, technology, social and political issues affecting students and the classroom, gift-giving, curriculum decisions, disruptive students, institutional constraints, academic freedom, gender, class, and power. Busy classroom instructors will find this book accessible, thought-provoking, and relevant to their daily work situations. It is not intended as a theoretical treatment of ethics and social justice in ESL, nor does it propose that ESL faculty teach morals or ethics to students. Rather, it is designed as a concise, practical introduction to ethical practice for both new and experienced ESL faculty in post-secondary teaching situations in the United States, for others interested in the ESL classroom, and as a text for TESL classes and seminars. Ethical Issues for ESL Faculty: *maps new territory in the field--ethical issues in TESL, particularly as encountered by post-secondary classroom teachers, are not often discussed in ESL publications; *makes the complex issues of ethics in the context of social justice accessible to TESL practitioners; and *includes useful resources, such as additional scenarios for discussion, an extensive reference list, and selected ethics-related Web sites.
Ethical Issues in Communication Professions: New Agendas in Communication (New Agendas in Communication Series)
by Minette E. DrumwrightDynamic, rapid, and radical changes are transforming the communication professions, provoking major implications for ethics. Traditional boundaries blur as media converge; relentless competitive pressures cause some forms of communication to atrophy and permit others to explode; and technological advances occur daily. In this volume, a new generation of scholars take a fresh look at the manner in which ethical issues manifest themselves in their areas of research and suggest new agendas for future research. This book addresses a wide range of questions from a variety of communication professions. Contributors tackle such issues as how to define a journalist in an era when anyone can disseminate information to a global audience; how to use "advergames," crowdsourcing, and facial recognition technology in advertising responsibly; and how to respond ethically in situations of public crisis communication, among many others. This volume will be critical reading for scholars and professionals in media, communication, and digital arts, as well as philosophy, government, public policy, business, and law.
Ethical Issues in International Communication
by Alexander G. NikolaevThisunique collectionexplores contemporary ethical issues and problems in international communication. Written by scholars from around the world focusing on global ethical issues for a global audience, the volume considers theoretical issues of international communication ethics and provides specific practical examples and case studies. Key areas within the field of international communication are discussed, includingjournalism, international PR and public communication, political rhetoric andeducation, making this an important inclusion to the current literature. "
Ethical Issues in Literacy Research
by Carole S. Rhodes Kenneth J. WeissLiteracy educators and researchers at all stages of their careers face ethical issues whenever they embark on research studies. In this book experienced literacy researchers identify and address multi-faceted, multi-dimensional ethical issues related to conducting studies in school, home, community, and virtual settings and share actions taken when faced with ethical dilemmas in their own investigations. Each chapter addresses a specific literacy research ethical issue. Part I focuses on conducting research in settings such as schools or literacy clinics. Part Two addresses research with pre-service teachers in college/university and school settings. Part Three looks at research in virtual worlds and online environments. Pedagogical features in each chapter engage readers in making connections between what they are reading and their own teaching and learning situations: A vignette to help readers understand the issue; pre-reading questions ; background information drawn from current research literature; suggested engagement activities; chapter summary. Additional resources (PowerPoint Presentations; Case Studies; Website Links; Interactive "Ask the Researcher Websites/Blogs/Tweets") are available on a website linked to the book: www.LiteracyResearchEthics.com
Ethical Issues in the Communication Process (Routledge Communication Series)
by J. Vernon JensenA rapid and widespread growth of interest in applied ethics is occurring today not only in the United States, but around the world as well. Academia both reflects this and is a leader in the movement. The field of speech communication shares in this increased sensitivity to ethical concerns. Students and the general public are looking for thoughtful analyses and guidance in all areas of communication. Ethical concerns relative to mass communication have been the subject of a number of books, but only a very few cover the entire scope of communication to include interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, small groups, and public speaking. This book tries to fill that need by discussing ethical concerns as they emerge in the areas of the communication process -- the communicator, the message, the media, the audience, and the situation. The speech communication field now has a need to digest and synthesize the existing research findings and the general literature in the field and in related humanities and social science works into a coherent and nontechnical discussion. This volume explores the most up-to-date materials to provide just such a synthesis. An extensive bibliography at the end of the book gives readers the sources on which the book is based, and offers ample avenues for further personal exploration. The book should provide meaningful food for thought as readers grapple conscientiously with the many everyday decisions made in communication transactions, and in evaluating the communication of others.
Ethical Journalism: Adopting the Ethics of Care
by Joe MathewsonThis book makes the case for the news media to take the lead in combatting key threats to American society including racial injustice, economic disparity, and climate change by adopting an "ethics of care" in reporting practices. Examining how traditional news coverage of race, economics and climate change has been dedicated to straightforward facts, the author asserts that journalism should now respond to societal needs by adopting a moral philosophy of the "ethics of care," opening the door to empathetic yet factual and fair coverage of news events, with a goal to move public opinion to the point that politicians are persuaded to take effective action. The book charts a clear path for how this style of ethics can be applied by today’s journalists, tracing the emergence of this empathy-based ethics from feminist philosophy in the 1980s. It ultimately urges ethical news organizations to adopt the ethics of care, based on the human emotion prioritized by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, and to pursue a more pro-active, solutions-seeking coverage of current events. This is an invaluable text for students and academics in the fields of journalism ethics, media ethics and media law, as well as for media professionals looking for a fresh perspective on practicing ethical journalism.