Uncharted Territory: Datafication as a Challenge for Journalism Ethics

Colin Porlezza () and Tobias Eberwein ()
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Colin Porlezza: Università della Svizzera italiana
Tobias Eberwein: Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC), Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Klagenfurt

Chapter Chapter 19 in Media and Change Management, 2022, pp 343-361 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter summarizes results from an empirical study that intends to shed light on current change processes in journalism ethics. Qualitative interviews with media practitioners and a document analysis of ethics codes and guidelines in ten European countries show that newsrooms are confronted with a broad spectrum of ethical issues that are seen as a direct result of the digitization of journalism. While many of them led to adaptations in the practices of media self-regulators across Europe, datafication and algorithm-driven newswork remain uncharted territory.

Keywords: Automation; Datafication; Digital journalism; Journalism ethics; Media self-regulation; Media change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86680-8_19

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