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This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values. The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend the possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity. Through an examination of the values in which their cultures are grounded, they provide a short list of ethical principles which form the common ground from which to view contemporary issues in the media, interpersonal communication, mediation and conflict resolution.
Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context
Communication Ethics in a Latin American Context
There are several important issues regarding the foundations of communication ethics within the Latin American social and cultural context. The purpose of this chapter is to identify principles of social ethics that rise above the oversimplifications that characterize traditional morality. Such a civic ethics cannot be content with a conformist adaptation to present reality by merely describing or reproducing it. And among the many challenges in undertaking this project, we face a crisis of moral values.
I mean crisis and not inversion. In an inversion mentality, moral values were central in the past, but now things have been reversed. We are facing a moral breakdown. It is a pessimistic conception of history ...
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