Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Issue No.1: Violation of Privacy = Imperilment among Internet Users

As the social networking sites has dominates the World Wide Web (WWW), it has also prevailed over the ways of communication among internet users to a astonishing level that of, it seems to be highly appealing and predominating the mass media by its unique way of dissemination of message among public. Supported by Kang (2010), “10 billion Tweets sent and 400 million Facebook users signed, people clearly want to be heard and seen and able to hear and see others on social networks”. Despite of the “perfections” that have brought upon due to advance of technology, inevitably, users somehow has confided the severity of privacy invasion in social networking sites. Concerns regards to such invasion were palpably detected among internet users as to reduce divulgement on such unsanctioned intrusion. Consequently, focus is successfully directed to the authorities seeing that ethical in media publication is cognizant thus they decided to give it a stroke in respect of suppressing regulation according to the violation on user’s privacy.

 
(source: thenutgraph, 2009)
 
(facebook, 2010)

 (homorazzi, 2009)
Privacy is an essential element among every human being as it secures, or isolates ones’ delicacy and freedom from being intimidated from the context surrounded, also to sustain moral values in which lie within an individual. Aristotle (Plaisance, 2008, p. 172) implies such term as “Privacy was essential for individuals to pursue virtue by “turning away” from the masses”. Therefore, to circumvent privacy from being “terrorized” by unwanted disturbance surrounded is bound to be the most appropriate thing to do at this point. In regards, media ethics play a fundamental role in mending the strife, in hopes of putting everything back on track otherwise; audiences of would gradually develop resentment towards the particular media by presenting negative public judgment. Certain theories that are being pertained are then identified as these theories deemed to be the appropriate ones in coherence to the ethics of publication. The foremost pertinent that of, deontological theory hypothesized by Kant whereby Wimmer & Dominick (2005) has explicated ethical in publishing must comprised along with moral laws that outlines the importance of appropriate implementation in all publication. In other words, media ethics are significant in order to reduce the offensiveness in publications, conversely generates popularity in pursue of success. 
Personally, violation of privacy on social-networking sites is still an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. The massive arise of invaders has never yet reduces its quantity or worse, cases of such issue increase as time passed by. To attain a promising result to eliminate such issue from perpetuating, serious endeavors are obliged to make by the authorizes once and for all.


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