Review article

What are the etics of the platform?

Sven Egil Omdal ; urednik Afenbladet Multimedia

Abstract

For the first 15 years of its existence, the internet has suffered from an ethical
and judicial defecit. Old regulations, be they statutes of law or codes of conduct, were
not seen as relevant to media platforms where everyone and their sister could be editors,
where information not only travelled in two-way streets, but were dispersed across the
big open plains of the brave, new digital world. Who could uphold the law in the age of
Facebook, Twitter, celebrity-stalking web sites and viral distribution of intimate photos,
slander and hate speech?
What we’re looking for, is actually a Roy Bean of the digital age.

Keywords

Media; Internet; Ethics; Standards; Social Media

Hrčak ID:

44523

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/44523

Publication date:

18.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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