Taking Responsibility: Legal and Ethical Issues in Participatory Journalism

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 119-138

  Singer, Jane B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics primarily internal restraints, organized formal codes available to public; Hate speech, varied legality from country to country; Intellectual property or copyright, clear international standards; Issues and implications, legal and ethical issues in participatory journalism; Journalists as professionals universal norms related to ethical precepts; Journalists' legal and ethical practices, effect of user contributions; Laws external restraint by government; rules imposed outside immediate social or occupational environment; News judgment right to decide what goes in news product; Taking responsibility, how truthful information is; Unknown provenance, accuracy of user difficult to ascertain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886174169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340747.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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