Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution

Noureddine Miladi is Professor of Media and Communication at Qatar University. He is former head of the Department of Mass Communication and President of the Arab Media and Communication Network (AMCN.online). He is editor of JAMMR, the first peer-reviewed English journal in Arab media and society.

Introduction: Digital Media Explosion and the Question of Ethics Part 1: Media Ethics Revisited 1. Political Correctness in a Digital Age: The Ethical Implications of a Hegemonic Discourse 2. Impartiality, Fairness and the Bias of Empire: Technologies of Freedom or Constraint? 3. Freedom of Expression and Social Responsibility: Contested World Views on Media Ethics 4. Global Media Ethics: Ideology, Politics, and Eurocentrism 5. Rethinking Global Media Ethics for a ‘post-American’ World Part 2: Media Ethics in Practice 6. Freedom of Speech, Responsibility and Human Rights in Islam 7. Philosophical Roots of Ethics in the Islamic Tradition 8. Ethics of Investigative Journalism 9. Fake News as a Challenge for Media Credibility 10. Media Ethics and the Challenges of Democratic Transition in Tunisia 11. Journalism Ethics and Conflict Sensitive Reporting: The Case of Al Jazeera Network Part 3: Global Media Ethics Global Challenges 12. Journalistic Deontology in News Coverage of Poverty in the Digital Age: Why Objectivity is bad when reporting on inequality 13. The Culture of Framing Terminologies 14. Tracing Securitisation of Narratives and Images in the Global Media Discourse 15. Decolonising African Journalism Ethics: From Afriethics to Afrokology