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Journal of Media Ethics
Exploring Questions of Media Morality
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The Ethics of Two-Way Symmetry and the Dilemmas of Dialogic Kantianism

Pages 3-18 | Received 11 Dec 2013, Accepted 19 Sep 2014, Published online: 21 Jan 2015

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