Ali Shaker; Hadi Khaniki
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This research explains "peace journalism" which is regarded as a new concept in worldwide journalism literature. The main goal of this research will help to explain and promote the level of theoretical literature of peace journalism. To this end, the indicators and values of this kind of journalism are ...
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This research explains "peace journalism" which is regarded as a new concept in worldwide journalism literature. The main goal of this research will help to explain and promote the level of theoretical literature of peace journalism. To this end, the indicators and values of this kind of journalism are defined to evaluate how much six large circulation newspapers applied the said standards during the war between coalition forces and Iraqi military force. The research is based on the Galtung theory and four main approaches of peace journalism (Solution-oriented approach, Process-oriented approach, Truth-oriented approach and People-oriented approach) and we have added two key principles in journalism: professional and moral standards. The researchers assume that interaction between those four approaches and the two principles could lead to sustainable peace for newspapers. After figuring out and explaining the values and approaches of peace journalism by content analysis, the study shows that the above newspapers didn’t applied the four mentioned approaches. In fact, the newspapers paid more attention on people-oriented. Having cultural proximity with Iraq, the Iranian newspapers used people-oriented approach during the war. In other word, the six daily papers just reflected the “innocence of Iraqi people” during the war and the other war dimensions were less addressed by them. Thus, these newspapers had not any correspondent in Iraq to coverage the war news; instead, descriptive reports, analytic and investigative reports were published.
S S; S S
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In this paper, six events displayed on social media and the discussions of a large group of Iranian users regarding moral aspects of the same events have been studied. Understanding changing concept of media ethics and morals in user-based new media sphere was our purpose. These six events, started on ...
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In this paper, six events displayed on social media and the discussions of a large group of Iranian users regarding moral aspects of the same events have been studied. Understanding changing concept of media ethics and morals in user-based new media sphere was our purpose. These six events, started on ‘Facebook’, ‘Instagram’ and ‘Youtube’ social platforms (between 1392sh and 1394sh), but users’ discussion continued and expanded on other media and websites. The study was conducted using qualitative methodology and explanatory approach and our analysis has been based on user comments on these six events. Among the thousands of user’ comments about each event, 396 comments were selected for analysis. Purposeful sampling conducted in two levels using round trip between data gathering and analysis. Using coding and categorization user comments, these interactions were provided for analysis. These interactions have been presented as qualitative model emerged from data, entitled: ‘pyramid of user’ activities in moral contrasts of social media’. The results showed that backgrounds of moral contrasts in this space, include public morality, professional ethics and the morals of social media. Based on the proposed model, users adopt four different positions in their interactions. They use what called in this article ‘reserves supported moral contrasts’ to interact with each other.
