Blogging and Ethics

Blogging ethics is a branch of philosophy when dealing with public forum journals on the internet called weblogs, also known as “blogs”.

Definition

The rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc (as taken from dictionary.com).

Importance

Ethics in blogging is important because people, or bloggers, need to be responsible and accountable for what they write because it is accessible to millions of people all over the world.     

Aspects of ethical blogging include:

Truth  

Limits to Free Speech

Weblog Code of Ethics

Work Cited

Toddled Dredge - http://toddleddredge.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/truth-and-blogging/

the Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/penelope-trunk/it-doesnt-matter-that-jo_b_56985.html

Rebecca blood – weblog ethics - http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html

the weblog handbook - http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/

Bill O’Reilly- http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/draft_bloggers_1.html

Blogging Wikia- http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/Alternate_Code_of_Conduct

Cyber Journalist, Johnathan Dube- http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php

GM blogs as adapted from Charlene Li- http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/about.html

Martin Kuhn- http://blogethics2004.blogspot.com/

EFF - http://www.eff.org/

EFC - http://www.efc.ca/

Disentangling The Web of Freedom of Speech 

Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogs - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4088702.stm

Authors

Aaron Feldman

Eric Agnolin

Genivieve McIntyre

Pat Craven