SOUaIBJ9) JOVSS ass eplWway pay pue OBulwog piaeq ‘uosIapUY ‘WA'D ‘aGyosH\ eseWeL Aq paup3 vader oy aroon nn He fe oe ear) Sen AVS $0 YooqpueHy AOS sy0 THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM legacy media and education units can join to shape the media universe for the bette ‘CONCLUSION Given the trends surveyed in this chapter, the {ask isto create 2 new, more complex, and conceptually deeper global ebicsforrespon- sible communication, professionally and non-professionally, mainstream and noa- ‘mainstream, online and offline In the fture, journalism ethics will be part ofa larger communication ethics, as we sot fut the norms for media use by everyone. Journalism ethics will be process-oriented ss an open and global, public discourse, incorporating non-Western interpretations of practice. Discussion and reform ef media will nvoive the public, as an essential player. Ethics willbe emergent and contested, right- fully so. Jouralism ethics will become more setivst, creating good journalism end advo- ‘eating forthe beter wort. ‘The philosophical basis for this new eth ice willbe an epistemology tt borrows sub stantially from pragmatic and other related Philosophies. At its core will be imperfec- lionism as expressed by faliblism, exper: mentalism and inerpretism. The new ethics will redefine, not abandon publicism, as an anchor for moral claims, and it will focus on macro public issues. NoTES 1 Avoebe at hiputwsnesp orgaiscode 0 2 Fara dsc peentaten of he svi repens iy ofthe pres, se Chapt 3 of Seb, Peter {oad Seen, 1956 Fora decor ofthe tension tatwaen lwrarian and song soda responsi ews see Charter 3 of Wr, 2011, 2 hapshamnbiccoulesoraldeiney 4 The project i at htaifourals orptesurce buistyuronnathicecode REFERENCES ‘bret, James M1. (2012) Reconstructing in- vidualon: A Pragmatic Tradition fram Emer son to Elson. New York, NY. Ferdham University Press. Betz, Charles (2009) The Wea of Human ‘Rights. 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Social recommendation of the news has ecome commonplace a digital networks sch as Facebook and Twitter have deve ‘oped as spaces for audionces to disseminate, dissect and dispute the Work of professional journalists, Audience research point t0 the rising wse of social networks for news, together with the growing importance of Alfred Hermida social recommendation asa source of trafic for news websites. But the shaving of news and information is not a nev phenomenon brought about by social media, There have always been dogrees of social interaction with media (see Chapter 21) Hiumans are, by nature, social animals ‘Throughout history, people have used the communication tools at hand 10 sort, fit ter and share information, and to form and nurture relationships. Donath notes thatthe roots of sociable media can be traced back 4000 years to clay tablets bearing personal ‘observations (2004). The key issue is how the advent of compater-mediated. commoniea- tion ha given rise to new forms of media that are impacting the dynamics of the discov ery, selection, publication and distbution of news and information. 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