Extra credit
Communication Ethics Article/Book Review
One way to develop your moral imagination is to become aware of different viewpoints and ways of thinking
about communication and ethics. For this extra credit assignment, you are to choose either two (2)
articles/book chapters or one (1) to read and write a communication ethics review. I encourage you to choose
to read an articles/ book chapters or a book that helps you explore further what we have discussed in class or
that touches on an issue that you think is important for practicing communication ethics at this historical
moment. You may write up to 2 article/chapter chapter reviews or 1 book review.
The requirements for the communication ethics review are as follows:
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Length: Article/Book chapter review 300-400 words each; Book reviews 700-800 words.
Format: 1-inch margins, 12 font, submit hard copy, printed on both sides of the paper.
Points: 20 points for an article/book chapter review. 50 points for a book review.
Content:
o Title;
o Bibliographic citation MLA format;
o Summary of main idea or ideas;
o Assess the contribution of this idea(s) to the practice of communication ethics, using at least one
concept discussed in class.
Articles and Book Chapters
Arnett, Ronald C. “The Responsive ‘I’: Levinas’s Derivative Argument.” Argumentation and Advocacy 40.1
(2003):39–50. Print.
_____, Leeanne M. Bell and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Dialogic learning as First Principle in Communication
Ethics.” Atlantic Journal of Communication 18(2010): 111-126. Print.
Brummett, Barry. “A Defense of Ethical Relativism as Rhetorically Grounded.” The Western Journal of Speech
Communication 45.4 (1981): 286–98. Print.
Burgoon, Judy. Charles R. Berger and Vincent R. Waldron. “Mindfulness and Interpersonal
Communication.” Journal of Social Issues 56.1 (2000):105–27. Print.
Chase, Kenneth R. “Constructing Ethics Through Rhetoric: Isocrates and Piety.” Quarterly Journal of Speech.
95(2009): 239-262. Print.
Christians, Clifford G. “Utilitarianism in Media Ethics and Its Discontents.” Journal
of Mass Media Ethics 22.2 and 3 (2007): 113–31. Print.
——. “The Ethics of Being in a Communication Context.” Communication Ethics and Universal Values. Ed.
Clifford G. Christians and Michael Traber. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 3–23. Print.
——. and Thomas W. Cooper. “The Search for Universals”. Lee Wilkins and Clifford G.
Christians, eds. The Handbook of Mass Communication. NY: Routledge, 2009.
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55–68. Print.
Cunningham, Stanley. “Getting it Right: Aristotle’s ‘Golden Mean’ as Theory
Deterioration.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 14.1 (1999): 5–15. Print.
Doxtader, Erik. “The Potential of Reconciliation’s Beginning: A Reply.”
Rhetoric and Public Affairs 7.3 (2004): 378–90. Print.
——. “Reconciliation—A Rhetorical Concept/ion.” Quarterly Journal of Speech
89.4 (2003): 267–92. Print.
_____. “Characters in the Middle of Public Life: Consensus, Dissent, and Ethos.” Philosophy and Rhetoric
33(2000) 336-369.
Hammond, Scott C., Rob Anderson and Kenneth N. “The Problematics of Dialogue
and Power.” Communication Yearbook 27. Ed. Pamela J. Kabfleisch. New Jersey: LEA,
2003. 125–57. Print.
Jansen, Claudia I. “Corporate Historical responsibility (CHR): Addressing a Corporate past of Forced labor at
Volkswagen.” Journal of Applied Communication Research 41(2013) 64-83.
Jensen, Vernon. “Ethical Tension Points in Whistleblowing.” Journal of Business Ethics
(May 1987): 321–28. Print.
Jovanovic, Spoma and Roy V. Wood. “Communication Ethics and Ethical Culture: A Study of the Ethics
Initiative in Denver City Government.” Journal of Applied Communication Research 34(2006) 78-94.
Lipari, Lisbeth. “Listening Otherwise: The Voice of Ethics.” The International Journal of Listening 23(2009):
44-59. Print.
Mieth, Dietmar. “The Basic Norm of Truthfulness: Its Ethical Justification and Universality.” Communication
Ethics and Universal Values. Ed. Clifford Christians and Michael Traber. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,
1997. 87–104. Print.
Tompkins, Paula S. “Rhetorical Listening and Moral Sensitivity.” The International Journal
of Listening 23.1 (2009): 60–79. Print.
——. “Truth, Trust, and Telepresence.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics. 18.3 and 4 (2003):
194–212. Print.
Books
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York:
Norton, 2006. Print.
Arnett, Ron and Pat Arneson. Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal
Relations. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999. Print.
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_____. Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP,
2005. Print
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. Habits of the
Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. New York: Harper, 1985. Print.
Benjamin, Martin. Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics. Lawrence, KS: U
of Kansas P, 1990. Print.
Berlin, Isaiah. Two Concepts of Liberty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. Print.
Bohm, David. On Dialogue. Ed. Lee Nichol. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.
Bok, Sissela. Common Values. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1995. Print.
——. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. 1978. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
Print.
——. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. New York: Pantheon Books,
1983. Print.
Callahan, David. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get
Ahead. New York: Harcourt, 2004. Print.
Carter, Stephen L. Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. New York:
HarperCollins, 1998. Print.
——. Integrity. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Print.
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: Norton, 1998. Print.
Gardner, Howard, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon. Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics
Meet. NY: Basic Books, 2001. Print.
Gehrke, Pat J. The Ethics and Politics of Speech: Communication and Rhetoric in the Twentieth Century.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
Johnstone, Gerry. Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values, Debates. Portland, OR: Willan
Publishing, 2002. Print.
Hall, Stephen S. Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. NY: Knopf, 2010. Print.
Hyde, Michael J. The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement. West Lafayette, IN:
Purdue UP, 2006. Print.
——. The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate.
Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 2001. Print.
Makau, Josina M. and Debian L. Marty. Cooperative Argumentation: A Model for
Deliberative Community. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. Print.
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Menocal, Maria Rosa. Oranament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians created a Culture of
Tolerance in Medieval Spain. NY: Little, Brown, 2002.
Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. NY: Viking, 2011. Print.
Schrag, Calvin O. The Self After Postmodernity. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1997. Print.
Schimmel, Solomon. Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness. NY: Oxford
UP, 2002.
Smith, Christian, Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog. Lost in Transition: The Dark
Side of Emerging Adulthood. NY: Oxford UP, 2011. Print.
Tronto, Joan C. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethics of Care. New York:
Routledge, 1993. Print.
Tulushkin, Joseph. The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical,
Honest Life. NY: Bell Tower, 2003. Print.
Werhane, Patricia H. Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making. New York:
Oxford UP, 1999. Print.
Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. 1969; NY: Shocken Book,
1997. Print
Wood, Julia. Who Cares? Women, Care and Culture. Carbondale, IL: U of Southern
Illinois P, 1994. Print.
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