Living Media Ethics

Michael J. Bugeja is an ethicist and author of 25 books, including Interpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine and Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age, Oxford University Press. He is co-author of Vanishing Act: the erosion of online footnotes and implications for scholarship in the digital age. He twice won the prestigious Clifford G. Christians award for research in media ethics. He is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. He directed the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University and now teaches media ethics there as a professor.

1. Overview: Ethics Across Platforms Part 1: Building your Ethical Base 2. Influence: Who Shaped Your Values? 3. Responsibility: Take or Forsake It 4. Truth: Levels, Shades and Hues Part 2: Testing your Ethical Base 5. Falsehood: Lie at Your Own Risk 6. Manipulation: Feel It, Spot It, Bust It 7. Temptation: Brace for It to Strike 8. Bias: Recognize and Resist It Part:3 Enhancing your Ethical Base 9. Fairness: Level the Playing Fields 10. Power: Apply as Needed 11. Value Systems: Create Your Own