Media and Social Justice
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... COMMUNICATION ETHICS (COM 503) MEDIA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE OCT 2008 MEDIA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 1.0 Definition of Media Media refers to communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet. (Shannon, 2008) Media also can be defined as data storage material divided into three broad categories according to the recording method: (1) Magnetic, such as diskettes, disks, tapes, (2) Optical, such as microfiche, and (3) Magneto-Optical, such as CDs, and DVDs. (Miller, 1976). 2.0 Definition of Social Justice Social justice came to be regarded as an attribute which the 'actions' of society, or the 'treatment' of individuals and groups by society, ought to possess (Ryan, 1993). John Stuart Mill (1949) defined social justice as society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This














