10 Social Media Ethics
“This is an important day for truth, for justice, and I couldn’t be happier,”
– Sandy Hook parent Scarlett Lewis (Williamson, Hsu, & Levenson, 2022, para. 7)
Public life in the twenty-first century is undergoing a historic alteration through ubiquitous multimedia technologies, and ethics is essential for coming to grips with them.
– Clifford G. Christians (2019, p. 31)
Hyping transparency distorts media ethics in several ways: It misunderstands the basis of media ethics, while blurring crucial differences among concepts; it wrongly implies that transparency can replace other principles and can resolve ethical issues created by new media.
– Stephen J. A. Ward (@MediaMorals, ...
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