Anthropological realism for global media ethics

Clifford G. Christians

Stephen A. Ward

pp. 72-88

in: Nick Couldry, Mirca Madianou, Amit Pinchevski (eds), Ethics of media, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

This chapter puts forward a form of moral realism which we call "anthropological realism". We argue that this is an important tool in the construction of a global ethics, and a global media ethics.