The Ethics of Intercultural Communication

Contents: Clifford Christians/Bo Shan: Moral Reasoning in Intercultural Media - Comparative Research on Chinese and Western Communication Ethics - Bo Shan/Jincao Xiao: The Analects of Confucius and the Greek Classics: A Comparative Approach - Clifford Christians: The Problem of Communitas in Western Moral Philosophy - Hugues Hotier: The Islamic Veil in France: The Body That Communicates - Jiamei Tang/Bo Shan: Derailed News Frames and Dynamic Cultural Hegemony: A Textual Analysis of 9/11 10th Anniversary Reports - Hemant Shah: Framing White Privilege: Eliminating Ethnic Studies from Arizona Schools - Xinya Liu: Moral Indifference or Unwillingness in Public Affairs? Comparing Chinese and Western News Discourse in Reporting Moral Issues - Jing Xin/Donald Matheson: Strange and Familiar: The Othering of Chinese Writer Mo Yan in U.S. News - Bo Shan/Xue Liu: Discourse Bias and Face-to-Face Negotiation: Intercultural Analysis of Coverage of the Wenchuan Earthquake - Romayne Smith Fullerton/Margaret Jones Patterson: Crime News: Defining the Boundaries - Xuewei Liu: Cultural Sojourners: A Study of Western Sub-cultural Musicians in China - Bo Shan: The Self-Salvation Path of Communication - Dan Yang: Intercultural News Reports and Intercultural Competence of Western Journalists in China - Valerie Alia: Original Voices and New Paradigms: Indigenous Media and Social Transformation in Canada - Patrick Lee Plaisance: Moral Motivation Within Media Cultures - Sandra L. Borden/David E. Boeyink: Casuistry's Strengths for Intercultural Journalism Ethics: A Case in Point - Chris Roberts: A Media Ethics Code for all Time Zones? The Global Use and Implications of the Society of Professional Journalists' Code - Constructing an Intercultural Public Sphere - Jack Lule: The Global Imaginary in Mumford and McLuhan - Clifford Christians: The Ethics of Human Dignity in a Multicultural World - Bo Shan: How Is Intercultural Communication Possible?

Bo Shan, PhD, is Professor and Vice Dean in the School of Journalism and Communication and Head of the Media Development Research Center and of the Center for Intercultural Research at Wuhan University. His publications include The Problems and Possibilities in Intercultural Communication, The Spiritual Space of Junyi Tang's Philosophy, On a Comparison Between Chinese and Western Journalism, and Chinese Journalism and Communication in the Twentieth Century: On Applied Journalism.
Clifford Christians, PhD, is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Journalism, and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana. His co-authored publications include Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics, Normative Theories of the Media, Ethics for Public Communication, Communication Theories in a Multicultural World, Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, and Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies.