Deck 6: New Technologies and Techniques: New Ethics

Question 1

All of these would cause ethical concerns for Dorsher - except ...

A) Security cameras videotaping everyone in big cities
B) Watching TV on a mobile phone while sitting in the back seat of a car
C) The ability to update news continuously on the Web
D) Marketers sending ads to the iPhones of shoppers approaching their store

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Colorado blogger Debbie Brown ...

A) Did not follow the bloggers' golden rule of disclosing her biases
B) Acted as an ethical journalist in her stories about candidate Spenser Swalm
C) Acted as an ethical public relations agent in her stories about Swalm
D) Did nothing unethical because her online bio disclosed that she sometimes worked for the Republicans

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which one of these statements would Michael Dorsher DISagree with?

A) New media are significantly different from traditional media.
B) New media make it necessary for more people to get ethics training.
C) New media encompass more message makers.
D) We need new ethics for new media.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which one of these statements would Singer DISagree with?

A) Journalists need to disclose their biases to readers just as much as bloggers do.
B) New media increase the intertwining of journalists, their sources, and their audiences.
C) Differences in new media add up to differences in degree for new media ethics but not differences in kind.
D) New media practitioners can still make use of traditional media ethics.

Question 5

Regarding honesty in networked media, which one of these would Singer agree with?

A) Truthfulness is the same as accuracy. Journalists' role is shifting from sense maker to news gatherer.
B) News needs to become a conversation that includes the audience, not just journalists. Many newspaper Web sites make extensive use of crowdsourcing.

Question 6

All of these are evident in abundance in new media - except for ...

A) Information
B) Ethics training
C) Misinformation
D) Feedback

Question 7

Which one of these is NOT among the core ideas important to journalists - for traditional media and new media?

A) Increasing their company's profits
B) Telling the truth
C) Safeguarding their independence
D) Striving for fairness

Question 8

Which one of these makes new media essentially different from traditional media, according to Jane B. Singer?

A) Criticism of the media
B) Public journalism
C) Analog media
D) Interactive networking

Question 9

Which one of these has NOT been a major impetus for the development of new media?

A) Ethics
B) Electricity
C) Digital technology
D) Message delivery speeds

Question 10

Which one of these statements would Dorsher agree with?

A) New media are not very cybernetic.
B) Hegemony online can be ethical.
C) Non-digital media are better for cybernetics.
D) Hegemony is forced upon us.