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Embracing the New Media Landscape: Ethics and Citizen Journalism

Explore the dynamic world of new media, digital ethics, and citizen journalism. Discover the advantages of new media, its interactive features, and how it caters to today's tech-savvy generation. Learn about digital media ethics, the revolution it has brought to journalism, and the impact of citizen journalism on global news. Delve into examples of citizen journalism's pivotal role in major events and weigh the pros and cons of citizen reporting. Uncover the need for a global code of ethics for citizen journalists. 8 Relevant

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Embracing the New Media Landscape: Ethics and Citizen Journalism

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  1. “New Media, Digital ethics, Citizen Journalism”

  2. New Media New media, as far as I know, is an interactive, updated and innovative form of media compared to those of the traditional media which are print, radio and T.V.; Internet to be exact. It has more features, faster, and for the most part, technologically reliant.

  3. how is the new media better than the traditional media? • Advantages • We use new media mainly to access information anywhere and anytime. Example is, it is mostly used by the students nowadays who want to do a research without spending a single second in boring libraries filled with heavy and dusty books. Our second best friend next to Google, Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one example of the new media inclination. • Another thing that adds up to the new media craze is its interactive features that allows people to exchange their ideas, views an opinions about one certain topic posted in the internet. Feedback in other term. For in the traditional media, let’s take the newspaper for instance, we cannot really correct or get our opinions printed there right away if we want to. • Also, the new media has its way of keeping up with today’s generation because of its digital infrastructure, or in other words, visual roads and rail networks of communication. Being born with our umbilical chords connected to the internet here in our modern, modern generation, it is not impossible that the new media caught the attention of today’s youth.

  4. Digital Ethics Digital media ethics deals with the distinct ethical problems, practices and norms of digital news media. Digital news media includes online journalism, blogging, digital photojournalism, citizen journalism and social media. It includes questions about how professional journalism should use this ‘new media’ to research and publish stories, as well as how to use text or images provided by citizens

  5. Digital Media Revolution • Traditional Journalism and Online Journalism • Global Journalism

  6. Problems in Digital Media Ethics • Speed • Rumor and corrections • Reporters using social media

  7. What is citizen Journalism?

  8. Internet an integral part of citizen journalism

  9. Examples. • masterpieces of citizen journalists would undoubtedly include the pictures and texts received during the New York terrorist attacks in 2001 • the tsunami in South-East Asia in 2004 • Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) acknowledged officially the key role played by people in the streets in broadcasting main footage during the London bombings by terrorists in July 2005 • Usama bin laden death news by SohaibAther on twitter.

  10. CNN iReport

  11. Pros Cons Helps to get local citizens more engaged in the issues affecting their lives. It makes possible the coverage of events that the mainstream media might otherwise miss. you learn what’s happening as its happening. No time to edit and omit information. Citizen reporters don’t have any ethics training in how to handle certain situations that may arise. This type of information isn’t always trustworthy. people are also able to spread rumors. Eg the story of death of steve jobs by a citizen journalist on Ireport.

  12. Conclusion: • CJ has both benefits and Drawbacks. • CJ is encouraged by the Top Tv channels. • Code of ethics should set worldwide for Citizen journalist.

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