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Book SynopsisElliott and Spence have produced a tight, teachable, and timely primer on media ethics for users and creators of information in the digital age. Pitched at just the right depth of detail to provide a big picture contextualization of changing media practices grounded in concerns for democracy and the public good, the book explores and reflects the implications of the convergence of the Fourth and Fifth Estates with an open-access, hyper-linked architecture which invites self-reflective practice on the part of its users Philip Gordon, Utah Valley University2019 PROSE Award Finalist in the Media & Cultural Studies category!The rapid and ongoing evolution of digital technologies has transformed the waythe world communicates and digests information. Fueled by a 24-hour news cycleand post-truth politics, media consumption and the technologies that drive ithave become more influential in shaping public opinion, and it has become more imperative than ever to examine their social and ethical co
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Part I: From Analog to Digital News 11
1 A New Paradigm for News 13
2 Legacy News Organizations Move from Analog to Digital 37
3 Intellectual Property and Information Sharing 64
4 Citizen Responsibility in the Digital Era 76
Part II: Thinking Through Ethical Issues in Digital Journalism 89
5 DOIT, A Process for Normative Analysis 91
6 Issues in Convergent Journalism 104
7 Privacy and Disclosure 116
8 Deception in Sourcing and Presentation 136
9 Media Corruption 154
Part III: Using the Virtual World to Create a Better Physical World 171
10 Beyond Ethics: Communicating Wisely 173
Epilogue: Digital Diversity and Democracy 190
Index 197
