Early Cosmopolitanism thinkers called themselves "Citizens of the World." They believed in the "ideology that all human ethnic groups belonged to a single community based on a shared morality."It is the mutual respect of the many morals, economies, political structures, religions, etc. of the nations that make up our global society. Great thinker Immanuel Kant, used cosmopolitanism as a guiding principle to protect people from war based on universal hospitality. But when evaluating media ethics from a cosmopolitanism ethical viewpoint, there is a problem. With rapidly growing technological innovations in communication, especially with the success of social media, media professionals can not depend on their usual ethical standards and policies. This is because traditional journalism is with focus on one's public. A media professional's public was at one time mostly confined to their nation or community. However, now media professionals, bloggers, journalists, and anyone on the internet can quickly receive and send news, images, and videos from all over the globe. Therefore, many take a cosmopolitanism stance claiming we need new guidelines for how we conduct ourselves in the media, and most specifically on the internet, as the information, opinions, and objectivity from which we report from will no doubt be globally accessible. Our "public" needs to no longer be considered our immediate nation, but considered citizens of the world.
The following is my Prezi slideshow with further information, and a video featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers."
Cosmopolitanism & Global Media Ethics Prezi
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