Edward Spence and Brett Van Heekeren identify, examine, and evaluate ethical issues in advertising. The authors understand advertising as "the process of the communication of advertising messages of persuasion directed at consumers..." Combining cases with ethical analysis, the authors focus on numerous areas of advertising, including codes of ethics, the media, truth in advertising, and new technologies in advertising. Advertising Ethics is the ninth book in the series Basic Ethics in Action, edited by Michael Boylan, which is a major new undertaking by Prentice Hall covering several areas in applied ethics, including business ethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics, and social and political ethics.