Ethical Targeting or Transgressing Ethics?
Is it ethical to use personalized data to target voters in political ad campaigns?
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Privacy versus Products in Targeted Digital Advertising
What does objective reporting mean in covering the Black Lives Matter protests?
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How Much Emotion Can Health Campaigns Ethically Evoke?
How far can health campaigns go in convincing people to eat healthy?
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Setting the Terms of the Debate
What are the ethics of strategic framing in political advocacy campaigns?
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Whose Image is It to Use?
What ethical choices lie behind the use of images for advocacy campaigns?
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Ethics and E-Cigarette Advertising
What ethical concerns arise in regulating e-cigarette advertising?
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Green is the New Color of Money
What are the ethical concerns with "greenwashing" in advertisements to sell products?
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Advertising Ethics and Social Issues
Gillette walks the razor's edge in using the battle against toxic masculinity in their recent ad campaign.
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Just Do It?
Did Nike do too much in their use of Colin Kaepernick and others in their recent advertising campaign?
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Side Effects May Include Persuasion
What ethical concerns are raised by direct-to-consumer advertising for pharmaceutical products?
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How to Use Case Studies in Your Class
How to use case studies to integrate ethics content and skills in your classes.
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