The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary
textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital
media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from
multiple cultures.



This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current
research and scholarship, and recent developments and technological
changes. It also benefits from extensively updated case-studies and
pedagogical material, including examples of ?watershed?
events such as privacy policy developments on Facebook and Google+
in relation to ongoing changes in privacy law in the US, the EU,
and Asia.



New for the second edition is a section on ?citizen
journalism? and its implications for traditional journalistic
ethics. With a significantly updated section on the ?ethical
toolkit,? this book also introduces students to prevailing
ethical theories and illustrates how they are applied to central
issues such as privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and
the ethics of cross-cultural communication online.



Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly:
each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with
detailed sets of questions, additional resources, and suggestions
for further research and writing. Together, these enable readers to
foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of
these issues and their possible resolutions.