Media ethics codes concerning privacy must be updated considering the ease with which information now can be gathered from social networks and disseminated widely. Existing codes allow for deception and privacy invasion in cases of overriding public need when no alternate means are available but do not adequately define what constitutes need or alternate means, or weigh in the harm such acts do to the public trust and the profession. Building on the ethics theories of Sissela Bok and Helen Nissenbaum, (...) balancing tests can be developed under a mixed-rule deontology that confines online misrepresentation and exposing the private information of private people only to cases where good most clearly is served. (shrink)

Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 240-242, July-September.

Volume 33, Issue 4, October-December 2018, Page 212-212.

The Journal of Media Ethics publishes case studies in which scholars and media professionals outline how they would address a particular ethical problem. Cases are drawn from actual experience in n...

The Journal of Media Ethics publishes case studies in which scholars and media professionals outline how they would address a particular ethical problem. Occasionally, the commentaries become separ...

Josephine Livingstone highlights the Hollywood ‘twin film phenomenon’ in her takedown of the Fyre Festival. That’s when an historical event or character gets two treatments released at about the sa...

Volume 35, Issue 2, April-June 2020, Page 130-138.

The Journal of Mass Media Ethics publishes case studies in which scholars and media professionals analyze a particular ethical problem. Cases are drawn from actual experience in newsrooms, corporat...

Volume 34, Issue 2, April-June 2019, Page 128-129.

Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 142-145, April-June.

The Journal of Mass Media Ethics publishes case studies in which scholars and media professionals outline how they would address a particular ethical problem. Cases are drawn from actual experience...

Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 57-59, January-March.

(2013). The Murderer's Salute: News Images of Breivik's Defiance After Killing 77 in Oslo. Journal of Mass Media Ethics: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 57-59. doi: 10.1080/08900523.2013.755077.