On the Ethics of Realness and Credibility

A chapter in the book Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture (originally published in 2005) might be useful for bringing our concern about ethos and credibility into a cultural context. Dan Molden's "Eminem and the Rhetoric of 'Real': The Implications of 'Keeping it Real' on Ethics and Credibility" makes an effort to situate our current concern for realness and the interest in figures who confront the fakeness of society (like Eminem and Jesse Ventura). Is this connected to our students' sometimes backwards understanding of credibility, authority and bias? The section "Real Ethics?" seems especially to start asking some of the questions that are related to our larger project.

in our library P94. C5725 2007