Journalism and Ethics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the impacts of journalism on society and the media's responsibility to accurately inform citizens of government and non-government activities in an ethical manner.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I: Development Journalism and Conflict Reporting
• – Free Media and Democracy in the Age of Globalization: An Analysis of Turkish Leading Newspaper
• – Imperative of Peace and Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Development
• – Role of Citizen Journalism through Internet in Reporting War and Conflicts: An Introspection
• – Understanding Media During Times of Terrorism
• – Role of Traditional and New Media in Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Region: A Primer on Peace Building and Community Development
• Part II: Factual Reporting, Objectivity, and Verification
• – Analyzing Verbal Narratives in TV News and Commercials
• – The Biased Truth: An Objective Perspective on Nonobjective News Reporting
• – Ethical Pitfalls in the Digital Age: When the Desire to “Serve Hot” Gets in the Way of Verification
• – Media-Invented Stories and Outright Lies a Threat to Journalism Ethics and Media Credibility
• – Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong: Teaching the Importance of Libel Law and Media Literacy in a Single Class Session
• – Media Literacy and Fake News: How Media Literacy Can Curb the Fake News Trend
• Part III: Media Ethics and Regulation
• – To Lie or Not to Lie: Interrogating Codes of Conduct on Photo Ethics in the Era of Digital Technologies
• – New Communication Technologies: Women’s Rights Violations, Limits on Freedom of Expression, and Alternative Ways to Promote Human Rights
• – Media Ethics and Elections Coverage in Nigeria: Understanding the Context and Imperatives From a Gender Perspective
• – Media Regulation and Freedom of Expression in Black Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria and Cameroo
• – Citizen Journalism on Facebook and the Challenges of Media Regulation in Zimbabwe: Baba Jukwa
• – Deferring Citizens’ “Right to Know” in an Information Age: The Information Deficit in Namibia
• Part IV: Media Literacy
• – Digital Competence: A Net of Literacies
• – Critical Media Literacy as Transformative Pedagog
• – The Freedom of Critical Thinking: Examining Efforts to Teach American News Literacy Principles in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Malaysia
• Part V: New Media Technology
• – When Journalism Met the Internet: Old Media and New Media Greet the Online Public
• – Immersive Journalism Design Within a Transmedia Space
• – Computational Journalism: Shaping the Future of News in a Big Data World
• – Data-Driven Information Consumption: Heralding a New “Golden Age” of Journalism and Content Creation?
• – A Culture of Survivors: SlutWalk, Third Culture, and New Media Communication
• – Tell China’s Story Well? Cultural Framing and Online Contestation
• – New Media Technology and Development Journalism in Nigeria
• – Training for Mobile Journalism
• – Who Brings the News? Exploring the Aggregators Apps for Mobile Devices
• – Journalists and Mobile: Melding Social Media and Social Capital
• – Mobile Journalism and Innovation: A Study on Content Formats of Autochthonous News Apps for Tablets
• – The Politicization of Selfie Journalism: An Empirical Study to Parliamentary Elections
• – Journalistic Professionalism and User Motivations for Snapchat Video
• – Mobile Journalism, Cellphilms, and the Use of the StoryMaker Multimedia Software at a Zimbabwean Media Training University
• – The Gamification of Journalism
• – Games and Quizzes in Online Journalism: Reaching Users via Interactivity and Customization
• Part VI: Social Media and Social Networking
• – Spreading the News: Spreadable Media, Social Networking, and the Future of News Production
• – Abuse of the Social Media Brain: Implications for Media Producers and Educators
• – How Social Media Offers Opportunities for Growth in the Traditional Media Industry: The Case of Travel Journalism
• – Potential Mediations of Hashtags Within Transmedia Journalism
• – Viral News Content, Instantaneity, and Newsworthiness Criteria
• – The Media Event as Enhanced News Story: How User-Generated Content Determines the News Agenda
• – Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages
• – Social Media in Crisis: How Social Media Created a NPO and Relief During a Wildfire Crisis
• – Stakeholder Interaction for Sustainability: The Impact of Social Media on Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Industry
• Part VII: Transmedia Journalism
• – Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: To Be or Not to Be Transmedia?
• – A Question of Trust: Functions and Effects of Transmedia Journalism
• – Designing Transmedia Journalism Projects
• – Pedagogical Guidelines to Introduce Transmedia Learning Into the Classroom: The Brazilian Context