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Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals

ISBN: 978-0-8138-0236-7
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416 pages
April 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Painting The Larger Picture: Media, Ethical Codes, and the Internet Age

1. Online Media Ethics in Perspective.

2. The Role of Media in Democratic Society.

3. New Challenges: Who is a Journalist in the Internet Era?

Part II: Society-wide Ethical Dilemmas for Online Media Professionals
4. Privacy
· Collecting and selling data on website visitors.

· Making judgments based on Internet behavior and activity.

· Surreptitious monitoring of others’ email and Web use.

· Complying with governmental demands to turn over private information

5. Speech
· Permitting hateful and harassing speech on your website or forum.

· Posting of offensive images.

· Complying with governmental demands for removal of specified information or voices

6. Intellectual Property and Copyright
· Copying and downloading copyrighted material on the Internet.

· Determining the appropriate level of protection for your own online works.

· The ethics of active non-compliance to existing copyright laws

Part III: Journalistic Ethical Dilemmas for Online Media Professionals
7. Speed and Accuracy.

8. Sources and Searches: Does the Internet Make Journalists Lazy?.

9. When Business and Ethics Collide: Advertising, the Internet and Editorial Independence

Afterword: The Internet, Media Consolidation and Democracy .

Appendixes:

Ethical Codes of Leading Professional Media Associations.

Ethical Codes for Gannett Newspapers

Index
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