The New Media Ethics  

Oleh:

Ward, Stephen J. A.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Ethics and the Media: An Introduction, page 207-244.
Topik: Media Ethics; Ethical Revolutions; Future Ethics; Open Ethics
Fulltext: The New Media Ethics.pdf (444.45KB)

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Over the past three chapters we have examined basic principles: truth, objectivity, and minimizing harm. These concepts are the pillars of mainstream media ethics. Most of the principles and approaches were developed over the past century, originating in the construction of professional media ethics, as discussed in Chapter 2. Therefore, our discussion has revolved around a traditional approach to ethics developed originally for a news media of another era. To what extent is this approach to ethics suitable for today’s and tomorrow’s news media? In this chapter we address this question by examining the reasons for concern about the applicability of traditional approaches, and by describing a new, emerging media ethics. In Chapter 4 , we reaf? rmed truth and objectivity after we reconceived these concepts. In this chapter we go further and think more radically. We consider to what extent the entire structure of media ethics needs to be rethought and reinvented for the media of today, not of yesteryear. Radical approaches are needed because a media revolution is transforming, fundamentally and irrevocably, the nature of journalism and its ethics. Our media ecology is a chaotic landscape evolving at a furious pace. Professional journalists share the journalistic sphere with tweeters, bloggers, citizen journalists, and social media users. Amid every revolution, new possibilities emerge while old practices are threatened. Today is no exception. The economics of professional journalism struggles as audiences migrate online. Shrinkage of newsrooms creates concern for the future of journalism. Yet these fears also prompt experiments in journalism, such as non-pro?t centers of investigative journalism.

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