Investigating the Ethical and Logical Dimensions of Online News
- Keywords
- Media Branding,Consumer Audience, Indonesia
- Abstract
This paper examines the ethical and logical discourse of online news from the perspective of indonesian news consumer. Two steps of studies were conducted. the first was through in-depth interview and discussion with five active news consumers. there are three aspects that often raise concerns about the ethics of news content, namely verbal, visual and style of news. Regarding the ethics of news context, three aspects were identified relating to the news placement, links and layouts. Meanwhile, the logical dimension of news includes aspects of accuracy, coherence, and manipulation. The second study was conducted through a descriptive survey involving 287 respondents to examine which aspects are the most dominant. results showed that the verbal aspects and news style, links and manipulation become the greatest concern of the respondents. It means how media construct reality, choice of words, links on the news page, and elements of manipulation in the news are the most disturbing things to online news consumers
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Bambang Sukma Wijaya AU - Mirana Suharyanti AU - Dessy Kania PY - 2017/11 DA - 2017/11 TI - Investigating the Ethical and Logical Dimensions of Online News BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 377 EP - 384 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902422 ID - Wijaya2017/11 ER -