Think/Point/Shoot: Media Ethics, Technology and Global Change

Think/Point/Shoot gives students a thorough overview of the role of ethics in modern media creation. Case studies emphasize the critical issues in global media ethics today in all stages of media creation from preproduction research and development, to production and post production. 

A must read for students interested in media production,  documentary production, and all aspects of post production,  Think/Point/Shoot is designed to introduce the topic of "ethics" to those interested in hands-on production.   Containing rich and lively introductions and chapters written by Annette Danto, Mobina Hashmi and Lonnie Isabel,  the volume also features practicing filmmakers, journalists, media creators and scholars who provide insight into dealing with real-world ethical dilemmas.   Contributing authors include:  Jon Alpert, Christine Choy, Yoruba Richen,  Tami Gold, Terilyn Shropshire, Sam Pollard, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Samir Chopra, Scott Sinkler,  K. Hariharan.  


For this era, digital imagery, sounds, and web communication have opened doors to sharing thoughts and ideas instantaneously to potentially vast audiences. This presents exciting opportunities, but also serious ethical, legal, and social challenges. The cases and exercises found in this book are applicable to the current media field while still remaining grounded in strong ethical theory. Think/Point/Shoot explains the challenge of communicating a story to a worldwide audience while maintaining ethical standards.

A companion website provides additional resources for students and instructors:

• media ethics game



• chapter summaries and case studies



• important forms

Instructors will also find:

• classroom exercises



• PowerPoints



• video from the "Global Media Ethics" Conference from March 2013

Annette Danto is a filmmaker and Professor in the Department of Film at Brooklyn College. A three time awarded Fulbright Scholar in Filmmaking, Danto holds degrees from McGill University, Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, Television and New Media.  Her documentaries are distributed by ForwardInTime.com and held in permanent collections of universities, libraries, museums worldwide.   Recent documentaries include, Reflections On Media Ethics (2011),  Gandhi's Wheel (2010), The Never Ending Path (2006).    Recent invited presentations include:  British Film Institute (2015), Daniel Pearl Film Festival (2015),  IIE/CIES Global Exchange (2015).  

Mobina Hashmi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College, and the Director of the Center for Global Television. She has a BA from Dartmouth College, and a PhD in media and cultural studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her work has been published in Economic and Political Weekly and in South Asian History and Culture.

Lonnie Isabel is a reporter and Former Deputy Managing Editor of Newsday and Newsday-Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Isabel is a 30-year veteran of the newspaper business and has worked as a political reporter, investigative reporter and editor for Newsday, Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Oakland Tribune. Isabel joined the newly-created CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in 2005.