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Privacy and Digital Door Stepping Issues for Digi-Journos Storify

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Originally published January 2012.

Project for online journalism seminar.

Privacy and Digital Door Stepping Issues for Digi-Journos

The ethical issues and challenges digital journalists face with the growing use of social media sites that blur the line between public and private information.

Storified by James Kim · Wed, May 02 2012 22:58:07

Wikipedia’s general definition of digital journalism.
Digital journalism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDigital journalism is a term used to describe journalism originating from the Internet. … Digital journalism is creating a new media …
What used to be information and savings delivered to the doorstep of a home has now become an array of “digital doorsteps” otherwise known as email inboxes, social networks and mobile phones.
Digital Doorstep – A Digital Doorstep? > What's a Digital Doorstep?What used to be information and savings delivered to the doorstep of a home has now become an array of "digital doorsteps" ot…
Traditional definitions of privacy fit somewhat uneasily into social media. Privacy is about intrusion rather than secrecy and the question is whether you have a reasonable expectation that something is private, rather than whether you have done or said something in public. These concepts are not easy to apply to social networking sites where the point of the exercise is to share information with others.
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In the hours following the Virginia Tech shootings, reporters were quick to sign up for Facebook accounts to find people touched by the campus shootings. This digital door stepping provoked a wave of resentment from students, as if the reporters were eavesdropping on conversations between friends.
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