Faculty - Publications by Mark Fackler

Scholarly Publications:

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (co-authors Clifford Christians, Kim B. Rotzoll, Kathy Brittain McKee, Robert Woods) Longman, 7th edition, forthcoming 2004. This case book includes a strong section on moral theory followed by cases in news, advertising, public relations, and entertainment programming. Recommended readings lead readers into all the relevant literature. This book has been a leader in the field since 1982.

Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (co-authors Clifford Christians and John P. Ferre), Oxford, 1993. The authors contend that Enlightenment individualism has misled communications theorists concerning rights and privilege. We argue for press theory grounded in a view of the human person “being in community”. Issues of justice, agape, and shalom are best understood from a matrix of communitarian thought and theological reflection.

Popular Religious Magazine of the United States (co-editor Charles Lippy) Greenwood, 1995. A religious history of the United States told through the stories of popular publications, leading editors, and the movements those publications represented. The book joins the series produced by Greenwood called “History of Newspapers and Magazines in the United States.” Several scholars contributed to this volume.

“Communitarian Media Theory with an African Flexion,” in Mediating Religion, edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage. London: T & T Clark, 2003. Essays from the fourth international conference on media, culture, and religion held in Edinburgh, 1999.

“Uganda” and “Ethiopia” in World Press Systems. Gale, 2002. Surveys of news delivery and press systems from around the world.

“Advertising” and “Copyright” in New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, edited by David Atkinson and David Fields. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. 1995.

“The Chicagoan” and “Lakeland Boating” in Regional Interest Magazines of the United States, edited by Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. Greenwood, 1991. Profiles on genre magaines.

“Religious Watchdog Groups and Prime-Time Programming,” in Channels of Belief: Religion and American Commercial Television, edited by John P Ferre. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Essays on the interface of faith and media.

“Charles Clayton Morrison,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Magazine Journalists, 1900-1960. Gale, 1987. Essays on selected journalists from the era.

In addition, several projects related to faith-based publications, including contributions in the Life Application Bible Commentary series, the Quest Study Bible (1994), the Inspiration Study Bible (Word 1995), the Family Resource Bible (Tyndale 1995), the Serendipity Bible, and several periodical articles.