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Practicing Communication Ethics provides a theoretical framework for developing a personal standard of ethics that can be applied in real world communication situations.Through an examination of specific ethical values including truth, justice, freedom, care, and integrity, this first edition enables the reader to personally determine which values they are ethically committed to upholding. Blending communication theory, ethics as practical philosophy, and moral psychology, this text presents the practice of communication ethics as part of the lifelong process of personal development and fosters the ability in its readers to approach communication decision-making through an ethical lens.
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Tompkins (St. Cloud State U.) provides a textbook for undergraduate students on the individual practice of communication ethics, based on the idea that it is a practical component of everyday living and with the aim of encouraging readers to become more mindful of their practice as a means for improving their communication. She presents an approach to ethical deliberation and decision making about communication, values important in the process, and how to apply them and ethical theories in reasoning, as well as contexts of community, intercultural communication, and digital communication, and common challenges such as not recognizing or misunderstanding ethical issues and rationalizing unethical decisions. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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