Title: TOWARDS A GLOBAL JOURNALISM ETHICS VIA LOCAL NARRATIVES
Abstract: This article argues that a global media ethics can only be arrived at via a study of local contexts. Following the notion of a “critical dialogic ethics” suggested by Christians, it is argued that a global media ethics should be constructed not as an overarching framework or global social contract arrived at through rational deliberation of ethical concepts removed from historical contexts, everyday lived experience and embedded practices, but through critical dialogue and interaction with Others within those contexts. An ethnographic, cultural approach that seeks narrative accounts of local values and practices should go beyond accepting local values and practices as unalterable or essentialist. Such a global dialogic ethics would start with thick descriptions of contextual values and practices. This article offers a first step towards a description of such values and practices within two particular African contexts, South Africa and Namibia. The contextual understanding of normative concepts of “social responsibility” and “freedom” are explored in journalistic narratives. The article points to conflicting interpretations of these notions and highlighting the need for an approach to global media ethics that takes account of the complexity of African contexts.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-17
Language: en
Type: article
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