{"product_id":"digital-dilemmas-isbn-9780813802367","title":"Digital Dilemmas","description":"\u003cp\u003eJournalism and mass communications professionals entering the innovative world of new media technology face a wave of challenging and often unanticipated ethical quandaries. \u003ci\u003eDigital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e is the first title in Blackwell Publishing's \u003ci\u003eMedia and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e series (Alan B. Albarran, series editor). This important new text establishes a framework for discussing, understanding, and ultimately making sound decisions on meeting these ethical challenges. In addition, the book provides guidelines for approaching and making decisions from an ethical standpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart one of the text gives background and overview information to examine existing professional ethical codes and their applicability in the new media. Part two delves into the ethical dilemmas faced by all online communications professionals—privacy, speech and intellectual property. Part three warns the reader about three specific types of ethical hazards—speed vs. accuracy and quality; validating Internet sources; and blurring editorial with commercial information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the use of historical summaries, discussion of specific problems, case study illustrations, critical thinking exercises, chapter summaries, key points, and recommended readings, each chapter comprehensively explores ethical issues. Aimed at students as well as practicing journalists and media professionals, \u003ci\u003eDigital Dilemmas\u003c\/i\u003e serves as the essential text and user's guide to the emerging ethical challenges facing those who work or plan to work in the online media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Painting The Larger Picture: Media, Ethical Codes, and the Internet Age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Online Media Ethics in Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Role of Media in Democratic Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. New Challenges: Who is a Journalist in the Internet Era?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Society-wide Ethical Dilemmas for Online Media Professionals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Privacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollecting and selling data on website visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking judgments based on Internet behavior and activity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurreptitious monitoring of others' email and Web use.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplying with governmental demands to turn over private information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Speech.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePermitting hateful and harassing speech on your website or forum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePosting of offensive images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplying with governmental demands for removal of specified information or voices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Intellectual Property and Copyright.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCopying and downloading copyrighted material on the Internet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetermining the appropriate level of protection for your own online works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ethics of active non-compliance to existing copyright laws.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Journalistic Ethical Dilemmas for Online Media Professionals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Speed and Accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Sources and Searches: Does the Internet Make Journalists Lazy?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. When Business and Ethics Collide: Advertising, the Internet and Editorial Independence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Internet, Media Consolidation and Democracy .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendixes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthical Codes of Leading Professional Media Associations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthical Codes for Gannett Newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert I. Berkman\u003c\/b\u003e is on the faculty of the Media Studies M.A. program at New School University, New York, NY. He teaches the class \u003ci\u003eNew Media Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e via the New School's Online University division (NSOU) and has also taught \u003ci\u003eResearch Methods\u003c\/i\u003e online. Author of several books on online searching and research, Berkman is founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Information Advisor\u003c\/i\u003e, a monthly journal for professional researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher A. Shumway\u003c\/b\u003e was a broadcast journalist for 15 years, serving as a photographer, news reporter, anchor and meteorologist at local TV stations in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Ohio. During that time he won more than a half dozen awards for his work, including a regional Emmy nomination. He is currently completing work on a Master's degree in Media Studies from New School University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989065285861,"sku":"NP9780813802367","price":48.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780813802367.jpg?v=1761782649","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/digital-dilemmas-isbn-9780813802367","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}