Communication Ethics Handbook Published

Supported by a Page Center Grant

The Handbook of Communication Ethics, partially supported by a grant from The Arthur W.

published by Routledge Press.

The 532-page volume is designed to be “a comprehensive guide to the study of

communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized

ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage

important questions of power, equality, and justice,” according to Routledge.

One of the book’s three editors is Steve May, a Page Center Legacy Scholar, who says

the work will appeal to scholars in communication and related disciplines who will use it as a

resource for their research. Instructors will also use it as a point of reference in graduate-level

and upper division undergraduate college courses.

The 29 chapters of the book are written by 45 contributors representing the disciplines of

communication, law, psychology, philosophy, political science, business, and education.

Communication and ethics are examined through five lenses: the tensions present in the balance

of theory and practice, academic and popular discourse, the universal and the particular, global

and local, and the rational and the emotional.

About the Page Center

The Arthur W. Page Center, a research unit of Penn State University’s College of

Communications, was created in 2004 through a leadership gift by Lawrence G. Foster, a

distinguished Penn State alumnus and retired corporate vice president for public relations at

Johnson & Johnson.

The Center seeks to foster a modern understanding and application of the Page Principles

and the business philosophy of Robert Wood Johnson II by supporting innovative research,

educational or public service projects in a wide variety of academic disciplines and professional

fields. For further information on the Center and the Page or Johnson Legacy Scholar Grants, go