YouTube and mainstream journalism: Strange bedfellows?

• Main Author: Gimeno, Jacques D. M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Human rights; Journalistic ethics; YouTube (Electronic resources); Communication Technology and New Media; Ethics and Political Philosophy; Social Media
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6355
• Institution: De La Salle University

This exploratory study is one of the very few that have looked into the unethical activity of posting and sharing videos of human rights violations on websites like YouTube. Eleven videos were sampled from 9,109 videos that resulted from an intensive search on YouTube. Results show that inappropriat...