{"title":"What Matters for Journalism in the Digital Age?","authors":"W. Wyatt","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2014.863596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.863596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125030629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explicating the Moral Responsibility of the Advertiser: TARES as an Ethical Model for Fast Food Advertising","authors":"Seow Ting Lee, Hoang Lien Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.792700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.792700","url":null,"abstract":"In adopting a deontological lens to assess message ethicality, this study identifies and explicates the ethical dimensions of fast food advertising through five principles of the TARES framework of persuasion ethics. In moral weight, fast food—with its high calories and low nutritional value—is negatively prejudiced. A deontological-ethical perspective, by focusing on the quality of the advertising message, shifts the focus from the product to a more measured deliberation about the moral responsibility of fast food advertisers to reposition them as moral agents who are accountable for their messages. A content analysis of 380 television and print ads for fast food in Singapore shows that few ads met the TARES's expectations. Ads targeting children and teenagers are associated with lower message ethicality than ads targeting adults and the general audience, lending empirical support to the literature critical of fast food advertising's insidious approach of targeting the young.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122329481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rejecting the Binary Opposition Between Alternative and Mainstream Media","authors":"S. Ashraf","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.837309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.837309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130861361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EOV Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.829681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.829681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117316687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaving It There? The Hutchins Commission and Modern American Journalism","authors":"Emily T. Metzgar, Bill W. Hornaday","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.826983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.826983","url":null,"abstract":"Using the recommendations of the Commission on Freedom of the Press (Hutchins Commission), we ask today's media consumers how they rate the performance of modern American journalism. We employ original survey data collected from journalism students at a major Midwest university, framing our findings in the context of the commission's 1947 recommendations. The result is presentation of contemporary opinions about the performance of American media in the context of journalism ideals articulated more than 60 years ago.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128597442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Credibility and Journalistic Role Conceptions: Views on Citizen and Professional Journalists among Citizen Contributors","authors":"D. Chung, Seungahn Nah","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.826987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.826987","url":null,"abstract":"This study identifies citizen journalists' role conceptions regarding their news contributing activities and their perceptions of professional journalists' roles. Specifically, the ethical criterion of media credibility was assessed to identify predictors on their perceptions of roles. Analyses reveal citizen journalists perceive their roles to be generally similar to professional journalists and even rated certain roles more prominently for themselves. Further, their perceptions of media credibility were found to function as a core belief in how they assessed their roles and also those of professional journalists, which has implications for a system of open ethics.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129408684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Viewing Dynamic that Endures","authors":"Susan Keith","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.837305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.837305","url":null,"abstract":"humans are—and that if we were capable of constructing such a machine, we would be morally obligated to do so. “The question of how we should behave morally can no longer be determined on the basis of our frail biology and failed social systems,” he says. “Thus, it is not such a far-fetched idea that we might have to trust a machine for moral guidance” (p. 207). He ends his chapter, one of two in the book’s closing section on “Emerging Issues in Digital Ethics,” by positing such a machine. He dubs it MorMach (for “moral machine”), in effect a manmade deity to whom deference would constitute the only moral option for its creators. “Most of the world’s population is still looking to invisible and silent gods for instructions on what to do,” Beavers concludes. “MorMach may be our best hope yet, and it will speak in a language that we can clearly understand” (p. 208). So there is much in Digital Ethics to provoke, challenge, and intrigue a reader interested in the largely uncharted territory of digital ethics, especially a reader open to approaching the topic from unfamiliar directions. Despite the inevitable unevenness among the contributions, the book offers more than enough “I never thought of that” moments to make it a worthwhile addition to the media ethicist’s bookshelf. In the end, indeed, it may be the sheer range of novel ideas from other disciplines that are its biggest appeal. Which of those shall we borrow, build on, and learn from in our own media-based enterprises?","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131836044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profit Trumps Ethics but Locals More Accountable to Audience","authors":"Ron Owens","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.837292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.837292","url":null,"abstract":"There is little doubt that over the last 15 years talk shows have become nastier and the hosts angrier. Some people might say the roots of this style go back to the elimination of the Fairness Doct...","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"66 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132531840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical Issues You Probably Never Thought Of …","authors":"J. Singer","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.837304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.837304","url":null,"abstract":"One of the best things about editing the book review section for the past eight years has been encountering a tremendous variety of books that have intriguing connections—sometimes explicit, sometimes more implicit—to media ethics. Through the years, reviewers have commented on books not only from the communication, media, and journalism disciplines but also from philosophy, sociology, film studies, political science, psychology, economics, and more. This section of reviews represents some of that variety; in it, reviewers cover digital ethics, war photography, alternative media, and consumer culture. The section clearly demonstrates that media ethicists will never run out of interesting things to reflect on and talk about. Enjoy.","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123126009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Folly of Outrage: Talk Radio's Unethical and Damaging Business Model","authors":"J. Shrader","doi":"10.1080/08900523.2013.837291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.837291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162833,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mass Media Ethics","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114300082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}