Communication Ethics Education as an Alternative for Ethnoreligious Conflict Resolution on Internet-Based Mass Media

Abstract

Internet-based mass media as an advancement in electronic technology that moves in cyberspace is a technology product that is very much beneficial, among others, as an instrument for remote communication that presents text, images, motion, and sound. With internet-based mass media, communication can be done more attractively, faster, easier, cheaper, crosscountry , and cross continents. However, this mass media can also be used to spread lies (hoaxes), utterances of hatred, slander and sheepfighting, including in socio-religious or ethnoreligous content. In connection with that, the internetbased mass media users need to be educated on the issue of communication ethics, so that they know, understand, and are skilled in communicating ethically, both in content and narration. This paper aims to describe ethics education communication via internet-based mass media as an alternative for ethnoreligious conflict resolution on internet-based mass media.The theory used in this research is a special theory of cyber conflict conducted by Kharitzogianni (2000). The method of this research is qualitative in nature, the type of research is the reseach library with a virtual ethnographic approach (netnography).