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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-05T04:45:47Z
dc.date.available2017-09-05T04:45:47Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1748-0485
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1748048515586945
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/146381
dc.description.abstractA Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies - particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before exemplifying how a secular Buddhist perspective might offer 2,500 year-old analytical tools that can assist with media analysis, law and ethics. The article proposes the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, particularly the sila (moral/ethical) dimension of the fourth truth, the Noble Eightfold Path (magga), can serve as a fruitful tool for informing communication theory and analysis, and media law and ethics. The article begins by assessing the extent to which communication and media studies in Asia and the Pacific has shifted to accommodate non-Western approaches. In media analysis, it suggests the Buddha's teachings on Right Speech (samma vaca) offer key understandings to assist with the deconstruction of media texts. In media law and ethics, it extends the application of Right Speech principles to comparing defences to libel (defamation) as they have developed in four Western jurisdictions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom456
dc.relation.ispartofpageto470
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe International Communication Gazette
dc.relation.ispartofvolume77
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and media studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4701
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470101
dc.titleEnlightening communication analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media studies, ethics and law using a Buddhist perspective
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version
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gro.griffith.authorPearson, Mark L.


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