Ethics for a Digital Era

Chapter

First, Some Definitions

The New World of News Production and Consumption

A Brief History of Journalism Ethics and Paradigm Shifts

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Chapter 2 Legacy News Organizations Move from Analog to Digital

New Ethical Issues for a Virtual Environment

The Reasons That Legacy News Media Endure

Legacy News Media Adaptation to New Technology

Reframing Role-Related Responsibilities for Digital News

Online Forum or Free-for-All

Corrections

Implications of Immortal Stories

Ethical Issues Raised by Financial Changes

Incorporating Ads: Let Me Count the Ways

Project Partnerships and Creative Cost-Sharing

Come for the Kittens; Stay for the News

New Ethical Imperatives for Online News Sites

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Chapter 3 Intellectual Property and Information Sharing

Copyright Law

Fair Use

Copies in a Digital Age: Traditional Views and Open Access

Aggregation and Plagiarism

Adapting Intellectual Property to the Digital Era

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Chapter 4 Citizen Responsibility in the Digital Era

The Philosophers’ Arguments

Digital Journalism, Audience Fragmentation, and Misperceptions

Ethical News Consumption in a Digital Age

Pseudonymous Engagement as a First Step

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Part II Thinking Through Ethical Issues in Digital Journalism

Chapter 5 DOIT, A Process for Normative Analysis

The Normative Structure of Information

Information and Universal Rights

The DOIT Model

Global Information Ethics: Cultural Relativism without Moral Relativism

Notes

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Chapter 6 Issues in Convergent Journalism

The Fourth Estate

The Convergence of Old and New Media: Five Paradigmatic Cases

The New Journalists of the Fifth Estate?

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Chapter 7 Privacy and Disclosure

Privacy and Confidentiality

The Shifting Boundaries of Privacy

Confidentiality

An Individual’s Right to Nondisclosure

DOIT Analysis of the George Bell Publication

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Chapter 8 Deception in Sourcing and Presentation

The Nature of Deception and Its Justification

What Counts as Deception

Deception Is Ethically Prohibited Unless Justified

Disclosure, Surveillance, and Physical-World Identity

Drones, Social Media Sourcing, Cyber-Lurking

Journalistic Disclosure and the Eternal Internet

Applying the DOIT Process to Deception

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Chapter 9 Media Corruption

A Tale of Corruption: The Myth of Gyges

The Characterizing Features of Corruption

Types of Media Corruption

A Detailed Analysis of a Case Study of Media Corruption

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Part III Using the Virtual World to Create a Better Physical World

Chapter 10 Beyond Ethics: Communicating Wisely

Information, Communication, and Wisdom

Wise after the Fact (http://www.greekfestivalofsydney.com.au/festival11/events/event_wisdom_info.htm): A One‐Act Play

Wisdom Deficit in an Age of Information Abundance

The Dual Obligation Information Theory-Wisdom Model

Communicating Wisely

Note

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Epilogue: Digital Diversity and Democracy

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Index

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