Patrick PlaisancePatrick Lee Plaisance is the Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics at the Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of the Journal of Media Ethics and an affiliate faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute. e is the author of Virtue in the Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News & Public Relations and editor of Handbook of Communication & Media Ethics. His research focuses on media ethics theory, moral psychology theory and methods, and the philosophy of technology as applied to media systems and practices. Read More Read Less