Clifford G Christians

Biographic Data

ID138393
NAMEClifford G Christians
GIVEN NAMESClifford G
FAMILY NAMEChristians
SIGNATURECHRISTIANS C G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

    Lee Wilkins, Clifford G ChristiansBOOKRoutledge Handbook of Mass Media…2020

    "This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social science. This second edition offers up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, including source ethics, social media, the roots of law in eth…

  • Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

    Clifford G Christians, Lee WilkinsBOOKRoutledge Handbook of Mass Media…2020

  • Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning

    Clifford G Christians, Mark Fackler et al.BOOKMedia Ethics2020Cited by: 2

    Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical philosophies, facilitating ethical awareness. It introduces the Potter Box, with its four dimensions of moral analysis, to provide a framework for expl…

  • Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

    Lee Wilkins, Clifford G ChristiansBOOKRoutledge Handbook of Mass Media…2020

  • Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansBOOKMedia Ethics and Global Justice…2019

    Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, huma…

  • Jacques Ellul and truth as aletheia: A response

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEExplorations in Media Ecology2016

  • North–South dialogues in journalism studies

    Clifford G Christians, Clifford ChristiansARTICLEAfrican Journalism Studies2015

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsClifford ChristiansClifford Christians is Research Professor Emeritus of Communications, Professor Emeritus of Media Studies and Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Social justice and Internet technology

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansARTICLENew Media & Society2015References: 3

    This essay is the honorary “Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture” for 2015, presented at the International Communication Association meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 23 May 2015. Internet technology is understood in social terms not just as tools. As a social/cultural phenomenon, the new media’s core ethical norm arguably becomes social justice. The global dynamics of the Internet system requires an international definition of justice as int…

  • Introduction: Ubuntu for Journalism Theory and Practice

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEJournal of Media Ethics2015Cited by: 3References: 9

    Media ethics is a complicated enterprise of many dimensions. But the future of media ethics depends primarily on theory. All aspects of research and professional practices matter, but the vitality

  • Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

    M Traber, Thousand Oaks/London/Delhi: Sage et al.BOOKCommunication Theories in a…2014

    Contents: Kaarle Nordenstreng: Preface: Toward a Better World - Robert A. White: Keeping the Public Sphere(s) Public - Brenda Dervin/Peter Shields: Talking Communicatively About Mass Communication in Communication Theories: Beyond Multiplicity, Toward Communicating - Denis McQuail: Social Scientific Theory of Communication Encounters Normativity: A Personal Memoir - Janet Wasko: Understanding the Critical Political Economy of the Media - Peter Go…

  • Panorâmica da ética dos media no plano internacional: Dois países, quatro décadas, um antropólogo

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansBOOKComunicação e Sociedade2014References: 3

    Este ensaio explora a crescente internacionalização da ética dos media, particularmente após o Relatório MacBride (1980). A análise abrange casos, temas e códigos de ética adotados globalmente, com foco no desenvolvimento de teorias éticas internacionais. Além da ética do discurso de Habermas, o autor examina três exemplos: a ética feminista do cuidado, a ética comunal africana e a ética dos media confucionista. O ensaio argumenta que essas teori…

  • A tribute to John Calhoun Merrill (1924–2012)

    Clifford G Christians, Clifford ChristiansARTICLEEcquid Novi African Journalism…2013

  • The Philosophy of Technology: Globalization and ethical universals

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEJournalism Studies2011Cited by: 2References: 4

    The philosophy of technology has a substantive role in constructing ethical universals during an era of globalization. It makes two major contributions to a new generation of media ethics: a critique of the prevailing view of technology as neutral and a human-centered theory of technology. Three applications are pertinent: (1) it prevents us from universals in the Enlightenment tradition; (2) it advocates including alternative technologies in uni…

  • Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies

    Linda Steiner, Clifford G ChristiansBOOKKey concepts in critical cultural…2010

    Contributors are: Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich, Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler, Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze, Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren, Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer

  • Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies

    Clifford G Christians, Theodore Glasser et al.BOOKNormative Theories of the Media2010

  • Introduction: Daily Sacrifices From Plato to Carey

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2009Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Toward a Global Media Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives

    Clifford G Christians, Shakuntala Rao et al.ARTICLEEcquid Novi African Journalism…2008

    Theoretical debates about global media ethics have been marked by disagreements about the nature, possibility, and desirability of a global ethics. This article attempts to address those disagreements by developing an "ethics of universal being " as the philosophical basis for a global media ethics, an ethics expressed by such universals as the sacredness of life, truth, and nonviolence. The article aims to explore various theoretical positions o…

  • Gramsci’s Hegemony Versus Ellul’s La Technique

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEExplorations in Media Ecology2008

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  • Cultural Continuity as an Ethical Imperative

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2007Cited by: 11References: 8

    Mainstream Western ethics defines humans as rational beings. Ethics is a system of rules external to society and culture. Qualitative inquiry defines humans in holistic terms-as cultural beings, and cultures are value centered. The master norm for qualitative research, therefore, ought to be cultural continuity. Decisions for change are controlled by cultural groups themselves. Research ought to empower them toward the locally sustainable. Resear…

  • Carey on Journalism Ethics

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEExplorations in Media Ecology2006

  • Ethical theory in communications research

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEJournalism Studies2005Cited by: 2References: 9

    This essay posits that media ethics must respond to both rapid globalization of communications and the reassertion of local identities. The major issues to be resolved are relativism, theories of universalism and three philosophical problems: theories of knowledge, the status of values, and whether the world is one or many. For media professionals to achieve international communication ethics, they must look outside Western canonicity. Deutschman…

  • Ubuntu and communitarianism in media ethics

    Clifford G ChristiansARTICLEEcquid Novi African Journalism…2004

    A robust and visionary media ethics depends on the normative theory in which it is rooted. Two such paradigms have grown up independently—ubuntu in Africa and communitarianism in Europe and North America. For both, the community is ontologically prior to persons. They serve as an antidote to mainstream libertarianism. Ubuntu as a universal idea solidifi es dialogic communitarianism and keeps it oriented intellectually. Ubuntu's total focus on hum…

  • The Social Ethics of Agnes Heller

    Open AccessClifford G ChristiansARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2002Cited by: 1References: 19

    Heller's trilogy developing a theory of social ethics is grounded in the decisive question of how good persons are possible. She disavows an abstract ethics of rules, so she does not build an ethical system but observes the lives of good persons. She focuses on healthy everyday lives rather than constructing an essentialist human nature. The key issue in social ethics is dynamic justice with three dimensions: (a) optimal possibility for developin…

  • Communication Ethics and Universal Values

    Clifford G Christians, Clifford Christians et al.BOOKCommunication Ethics and…1997

    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 Jus…

  • Good News: Social Ethics and the Press

    Clifford G Christians, John P Ferre et al.BOOKGood news1993

    Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrisically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science--together with a longer tradition in theological inquiry--insist that community, mutuality, and relationship are fundamental to a full concept of personhood. The authors argue that “persons-in…