New Media, New Ethics Confronting Ethical Issues In The Digital Era

Abstract

The current study has offered pertinent insights into a variety of ethical issues inevitably imposed by the emerging digital technologies on journalistic ethics. At the start, the study has engaged in the definitional delimitation of our key concepts trying to forme valid conceptual abstractions and exploring new meanings. Following that, the study shed light on intricately turbulent ethical paradoxes and dilemma that the digital media landscape is going through currently. In parallel, the study proposed Value Determinism Theory of media as a normative alternative that provides an eclectic epistemological framework to ethicalize unsettling traditional and digital media practices and outputs