Digital age as ethical maze: citizen journalism ethics during crises in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Moyo, Last

doi:10.1080/23743670.2015.1119494

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“…Waltz (ibid) further explained that a better definition was put forward by Clemencia Rodriguez who described it as ‗citizen media' since it includes a production means -characterised by open access and volunteerism, goals involving social change, and not-for-profit orientation‖ (p, 3). Moyo (2015) holds that new online journalism practices referred to as ‗grassroots' journalism entered the journalism landscape at the advent of the Internet especially around the early 1990s. However, from a presentation on a brief history of alternative and activist media in Waltz (2005, pp.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Citizen Journalism and Activismmentioning

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Understanding Social Media’s Role in Propagating Falsehood in Conflict Situations: Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

Ngange¹,

Mokondo²

2019

SMC

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Social media have been welcomed as important tools that contribute to satisfying the daily information needs of citizens in today’s global society. To many, they serve as an open and alternative source of information especially where the conventional media fail to play their role of serving the public’s interest first. Notwithstanding, there have been serious and legitimate concerns about the spread of fake news over social media especially during the 2016 US presidential elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017). This coincided with the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis (CAC) in which the Cameroon government blamed social media users for spreading false information about the crisis to the extent that government shut down the Internet in the two affected Anglophone regions of the country for 93 days in 2017. This article therefore, examines the content of information (graphics, audios, videos, texts) posted on two widely used social media platforms (WhatsApp and Facebook) during the Anglophone Crisis, in order to understand how falsehood is propagated especially during crisis situations. A qualitative approach to analyse data of falsehood during the crisis was used and three major ways were identified through which falsehood was propagated. Principally, social media activists used computer software to distort pictures and superimpose content that depict the messages they wanted to pass across. They also spread rumours using texts, audio clips and distorted videos. The conclusion is that social media have been awash with falsehood in the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis. The major recommendation therefore, is that users of social media should make efforts to verify the authenticity of information obtained from such media before consuming and disseminating to others. The December 2014 Law on Terrorism in Cameroon treats such offences seriously and defaulters are severely punished with heavy jail sentences and fines.

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Section: A Brief History Of Citizen Journalism and Activismmentioning

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Understanding Social Media’s Role in Propagating Falsehood in Conflict Situations: Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

Ngange¹,

Mokondo²

2019

SMC

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“…In every profession, the evolutionary process of the industry helps in determining the code of ethics (Park & Banyai, 2007). In the current context, professionalisation has paved the way for news agencies and social media platforms disseminating information to the general public to adopt a specific code of ethics (Moyo, 2015). These codes help in determining which information should be shared with the world, keeping in view the socio-political and cultural perspectives in mind (Singh, 2011).…”

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“…The reason behind this assertion is that most of the online news and information sharing portals does not filter the information being shared from their respective platforms or have a standardised code fo ethics to be followed. At this point, the researcher thinks it is essential for the readers to understand what recent researches have to say about the ethical implications of citizen journalism (Moyo, 2015). The selected research works are discussed in the following section.…”

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Development and Strengthening of Citizen Journalism in Internet-based Information Sharing

2019

JCCC

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Journalism has gone through some major radical changes in the past century. This has been reflected by the practise of citizenship based journalism. This literature review analyses the concept of citizen journalism. This also explores the ethical responsibilities which are tied into digital platform publishing. It observes what gaps exist in citizen journalism and what future concepts should be explored and expanded upon. This has been done through the use of scholarly articles which pertain to the issue and provide meaningful insight into the many different themes. These themes highlight the commonalities which the scholars have observed in their investigative endeavours. Where gaps in the literature where present, they were noted and higlighed to asssit future shcolars in their own research endeavours. The future direction for research in investigative journalism is explored. This presents the projection that the overall concept could take in the future, potentially replacing mainstream newssite with locally sourced journalism that is more involved and intimate. The conclusion presents the gist of the information which can be gleaned from what is presented in the paper. This creates both a summraisation of the information as well as create a synthesis of the arguments presented in the paper to increase organisation of information and increase comprehensibility.

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“…However, the debate regarding the role and practice of citizen journalism is constantly being discussed, especially the ethical issue of citizen journalists as the main actors in delivering information to the public (Moyo, 2015). In 2020, through the review column on the Tempo Witness citizen journalism application, there were 3 out of 6 reviews related to invalid news, unprofessional ethics, and other negative comments.…”

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Pemaknaan Etika Jurnalisme Warga oleh Jurnalis Warga Tempo Witness di Wilayah Jawa Tengah

Soraya

Gumilar

Al-Faqih

2023

JKJ

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Awareness of the importance of conveying phenomena that are around us is in line with proficiency in utilizing information technology to shape citizens like journalists. The ease with which citizens become like journalists awakens the intention of citizens to uphold the truth by becoming citizen journalists. However, various implementations of citizen journalism ethics that are difficult to implement are actually a challenge in itself. It even creates a temptation to apply citizen journalism ethics. These challenges and temptations diverted their original intention as citizen journalists. They do not comply with the code of ethics that applies when carrying out journalistic activities. This research aims to explore the interpretation of citizen journalism ethics by citizen journalists of Tempo Witness in the Central Java region, which is the region with the highest intensity of sending news reports. Qualitative approaches, phenomenological methods, and symbolic interaction theory serve to explore the motives, experiences, and agreements of citizen journalists in implementing citizen journalism ethics. The results showed that the three informants interpreted the ethical aspects of citizen journalism morality well, they maintained good manners and maintained the quality of news reports. However, two out of three informants did not apply citizen journalism ethics by accepting gifts from the sources, in the form of money and goods.

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Digital age as ethical maze: citizen journalism ethics during crises in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Understanding Social Media’s Role in Propagating Falsehood in Conflict Situations: Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

Understanding Social Media’s Role in Propagating Falsehood in Conflict Situations: Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

Development and Strengthening of Citizen Journalism in Internet-based Information Sharing

Pemaknaan Etika Jurnalisme Warga oleh Jurnalis Warga Tempo Witness di Wilayah Jawa Tengah

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