Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference

A student-friendly, theoretically engaged application of communication ethics to a variety of communicative contexts

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This comprehensive and engaging treatment of communication ethics combines student application and theoretical engagement. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference reviews classic communication ethics approaches and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Introducing communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, the authors offer a learning model that frames communication ethics as arising from a set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structures that guide human life.

Key Features  

• Identifies major metaphors in each chapter to promote student interest and allow for better comprehension of key concepts
• Applies theory to everyday life with examples drawn from multiple perspectives including education and personal as well as professional life
• Presents "The Dialogic Learning Model" as a framework for the book, offering guidelines for ethical decision making in each of several communicative contexts such as interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational
• Includes a humanities case study, Victor Hugo′s Les Misérables, as a classic example of ethical struggles that constitute the human condition

Intended Audience  
This core text is designed for the undergraduate course in Communication Ethics, as well as other communication courses where ethics is a major portion of study.

Ronald C. Arnett (Ph.D. & M.A., Ohio University; M.Div., Bethany Theological Seminary; B.S., Manchester College) is the author/editor of seven books and 46 published articles.  Dialogue, communication ethics, and the philosophy of communication are central to his scholarly projects and teaching commitments.  Arnett is one of the founders of the National Communication Association’s Commission on Communication Ethics (1984), former president of the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania (1998-99), and former president of the Religious Communication Association (2000-03). His work as appeared in the following journals:  Qualitative Inquiry, Communication Theory, Journal of Educational Administration, Journal for the Association of Communication Administration, Communication Education, and The Western Journal of Communication.  In addition, Arnett is the recipient of the 1999 Duquesne University Eugene P. Beard Award for Leadership in Ethics for faculty and the recipient of the 1999 Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

Janie Harden Fritz (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. & B.A., University of Georgia) conducts research on communication in problematic workplace relationships, organizational communication ethics, and communication pedagogy.  She has published in numerous communication journals (including Journal of Mediated Communication, Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Communication Quarterly), is co-editor of Problematic Relationships in the Workplace (Peter Lang), is the former president of the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania (2001-02), and the current 1st vice-president of the Eastern Communication Association.

Leeanne M. Bell, Assistant professor of the Business Communication Department at Stevenson University, received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Duquesne University and her M.A. in Communication Studies from West Virginia University. Her research interests include communication ethics, pedagogy, interpersonal communication, and conflict and negotiation processes.