Communication Ethics, Media, and Popular

Popular culture provides a daily catalog of cultural attitudes, values, and practices. From television sitcoms to the daily news, from the theater to the sports stadium, we observe embodiments and enactments of character, virtue, honesty, and integrity (o

Chapter One: Communication Ethics, Media, and Popular Culture: An Introduction

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Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, and Debra K. Japp

Chapter Two: The Construction of Ethical Codes in the Discourse and Criticism of Popular Culture

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Jeffery L. Bineham

Chapter Three: Representation as Ethical Discourse: Communicating with and about Mediated Popular Culture

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Phyllis M. Japp

Chapter Four: Leopold's Land Ethic: Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Advertising

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Mark Meister

Chapter Five: Tragedy and Comedy as Ethical Responses to John Rocker

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Jeffery L. Bineham

Chapter Six: Is There More to Ethics than the Prime Directive? Personal Integrity in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager

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Paula S. Tompkins

Chapter Seven: Public and Relational Communication Ethics in Political Communication: Integrity, Secrecy, and Dialogue in The Contender

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Jon A. Hess and Joy Piazza

Chapter Eight: "In the End, It's All Made Up": The Ethics of Fanfiction and Real Person Fiction

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Jennifer McGee

Chapter Nine: Eminem and the Rhetoric of "Real": The Implications of "Keeping It Real" on Ethics and Credibility

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Dan T. Molden

Chapter Ten: (Re)Constructing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: Ethical Choicemaking and the Construction of Self in Online Popular Culture

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Scott Titsworth and Jeffery St. John

Chapter Eleven: When You Lie with Friends

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Diana L. Rehling

Chapter Twelve: You Are Forgiven: Interpersonal and Familial Ethics in the Films of Wes Anderson

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Greg Carlson

Chapter Thirteen: Judge Judy and Dr. Phil: Advice with an Attitude

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Debra K. Japp

List of Contributors

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Index

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