Behind The Image: Research On Ethical Anomie Of News Pictures In The New Media Environment

From "Kiss of Victory" to "Love during the SARS Period",from "Hungry Sultan" to "Ask Corpse Price",from the remains of the WWII battlefield to the disaster scene,the discussion on the ethical issues of news pictures has been ongoing.In recent years,with the change of media methods,new technologies,new subjects and new practices have brought many new ethical issues.In a complex media environment,it is difficult for journalists to be clear in the process of news reporting and news photo shooting.The basis of compliance,thus falling into the dilemma of shooting and not shooting;in the new media environment,the general public has the conditions to participate in the production of pictures,but there is no corresponding ethical norms to regulate them,which leads to meaningless apathy on the scene of suffering;no boundary in the cyberspace,the distance between people is infinitely narrowed,but it also brings the worry of personal privacy leakage.As the audience of news photo reports,on the one hand,they suffer from the ethical anomaly of news photos,and on the other hand,they may help in disguise.The re-dissemination of the news pictures that are out of range.In the face of ethical dilemmas,how should journalists choose to minimize harm? How to formulate clear and appropriate for different subjects Ethical standards? How to maximize the protection of public figures and the privacy of the public? These problems have always existed but have not yet been resolved.This article will comb the related phenomena to sort out the above phenomena,and analyze the phenomena from the three levels of news picture acquisition stage,news picture content itself and news picture transmission process.At the stage of obtaining news pictures,ethical anomie is mainly manifested by technical support secret photography and privacy violations under the openness of social media;at the content level of news pictures,ethical anomie is mainly manifested in widespread visual violence and ubiquitous lens intrusion;in the spread of news pictures,ethical anomie is mainly manifested in the process of reviewing and judging the source of the picture by the photo editors,the above problems will be analyzed using the ethical principles to solve the ethical dilemma,and the pros and cons of the choice of the news photographer and the photo editors will be analyzed.The reporter providessome references.On this basis,the source of traceability is further analyzed to analyze the deep-seated causes of the problem.First,from the perspective of the media person,the dilemma of the media person in the new media environment is analyzed;second,return to the environmental level and further Analyze the impact of the communication environment on the dissemination of news pictures;finally,try to moral and legal level attribution.On this basis,combined with related ethical principles to further build a multi-subject cooperation norm system,at the macro level,it is necessary to re-examine the normative subject and scope of news picture ethics in the new media environment,and the news picture ethics it is divided into three levels of professional media,non-professional media and audiences for stratification and standardization.At the same time,it also needs to improve the legal protection system of news ethics and news picture supervision institutions.At the meso level,as an authoritative subject of news information release,professional news organizations should return to humanism to curb the spread of utilitarianism,and as other platforms for information release,they should also assume the responsibilities and obligations of the platform.At the micro level,whether it is a photojournalist,photo editor,or audience,there should be as regulated,photojournalists should return to virtue ethics and further think about "what kind of person should I be?" Picture editors should remain modest and seek to balance ethical dilemmas.For the audience,media literacy and visual literacy are both cultivation may effectively reduce the ethical anomie of news pictures at the source.The research methods used in this article are mainly literature research and case study.In the early stage,through a lot of relevant literature review,learn about the history and current status of ethical issues in news pictures.Combined with related cases,point-by-point questions are put forward,and ethical principles are used to analyze the problems.On this basis,analyze the causes,and finally propose positive solutions.