IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The aim of this Working Group is to devote the greatest attention to the ethical and deontological problems and issues of the communication media in an epoch where, unfortunately, ethics is often neglected, ignored or simply misconceived or worse. Investigations of lying as a main activity for many people in the messages diffused through the mass media are a central focus.

Chair: Manuel Pares i Maicas [Contact]

This Working Group is concerned with ethical and deontological problems and issues of the communication media. It focuses particularly on the crisis of the relationship between ethics and politics; political developments in different areas of the world; the actors in the different modalities of political communication; the sources of political information and their risks from an ethical point of view; political news and public relations; and the roles played by propaganda and disinformation in political news.

Members of the Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group.