Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes
Throughout the 20th century, most of the world’s countries and international journalistic organizations adopted codes of journalistic ethics with general principles governing the profession. In the 21st century, a significant number of proposals have emerged offering new ethics recommendations relat...
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| description | Throughout the 20th century, most of the world’s countries and international journalistic organizations adopted codes of journalistic ethics with general principles governing the profession. In the 21st century, a significant number of proposals have emerged offering new ethics recommendations relating to the treatment of issues such as gender violence, disability, the environment and climate change, among other matters. The aim of this research is to confirm that we are faced with a second generation of ethics codes or guidelines for social communication. This study, based on the content analysis of 53 guides published in Spain on the three subject areas mentioned, shows the emergence of these codes from 1999 onwards, the existence of common features in relation to their endorsement, their structure, their dissemination and monitoring, and the widespread participation of individuals, experts and groups not professionally related to the field of communication in their promotion or implementation, which is evidence of what we call the social self-regulation of communication and represents the main novelty in this new stage of communication ethics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-77344c1baecf4d24bac6150dfd4815252025-08-20T02:16:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Communication2297-900X2024-10-01910.3389/fcomm.2024.14958971495897Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codesHugo Aznar0María Teresa Mercado-Sáez1Àngels Álvarez-Villa2Department of Ciencias Políticas, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, SpainDepartment of Teoría de los Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Comunicación, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainDepartamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, SpainThroughout the 20th century, most of the world’s countries and international journalistic organizations adopted codes of journalistic ethics with general principles governing the profession. In the 21st century, a significant number of proposals have emerged offering new ethics recommendations relating to the treatment of issues such as gender violence, disability, the environment and climate change, among other matters. The aim of this research is to confirm that we are faced with a second generation of ethics codes or guidelines for social communication. This study, based on the content analysis of 53 guides published in Spain on the three subject areas mentioned, shows the emergence of these codes from 1999 onwards, the existence of common features in relation to their endorsement, their structure, their dissemination and monitoring, and the widespread participation of individuals, experts and groups not professionally related to the field of communication in their promotion or implementation, which is evidence of what we call the social self-regulation of communication and represents the main novelty in this new stage of communication ethics.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1495897/fullcodes of media ethicsmedia self-regulation mechanismssocial self-regulationgender violencedisabilityenvironmental and climate change |
| spellingShingle | Hugo Aznar María Teresa Mercado-Sáez Àngels Álvarez-Villa Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes Frontiers in Communication codes of media ethics media self-regulation mechanisms social self-regulation gender violence disability environmental and climate change |
| title | Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes |
| title_full | Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes |
| title_short | Verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication: second generation ethics codes |
| title_sort | verifying a new historical stage in the ethics of communication second generation ethics codes |
| topic | codes of media ethics media self-regulation mechanisms social self-regulation gender violence disability environmental and climate change |
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