Blog, a tool to announce personal thoughts to the World, can harm others if not appropriately used. Code of Blog Ethics (COBE), a regulation developed for the interest of human rights and ethics, has been debated heatedly in various contexts. Scholars such as Rebecca Blood, and Martin have worked to develop their vision of COBE.
- Jonathan Dube: A Bloggers' Code of Ethics (http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php)
- Rebecca Blood: Weblog Ethics (In Weblog Handbook)(http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html)
- Martin: (http://blogethics2004.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html)
Are these necessary? Are there better ones? How do we address these important issues when blogging? Perhaps this is a question that every blogger needs to think about.
7 comments:
The code of blog ethic is a complicated issue. Take my own experience for example, sometimes we will copy others picture or quote others' letters without letting he/she know. It seems not the big problem,but it may result in "plagiarism" and the author may feel uncomfortable and annoyed. Therefore, we should pay attention to ask for other bloggers' approval when we want to quote others' works.
group member:Shelly.Anndo.Zoe.Lily
We never before thought about the possibility of such criticism ethic code for blog activities. The versions of C.O.B.E have considerate emphasis on journalism codes, demanding the accuracy of information and reliability of sources. But in practice, blogging for most people is a very casual way to express themselves. Codes like these make blogging like writing term papers. Now the codes are only a common moral a few of the bloggers are promoting. We believe few would actually try to measure up to the "professional" qualities the cdes call for. When finally the C.O.B.E is legistated, current bloggers might just stop blogging altogether. We expect a decline in blogging it has really happens.
group members: Jack, Candy, iishi
We agree with your second postings-Rebecca Blood: Weblog Ethics,said that we should post article deliberately!And we are totally agree with that,because the information we got from internet are quiet doubtful nowadays! And If we can posting someting more cautiously ,perhep we can change this phenomenon !!
But we have a question:
If the article we post on internet must be 100% correct.We must have to spend a lot of time to find out is this source true or not.And it must cost us so much time to prove it!It will reduce the will to post something on line?
Clara Annie and Janet
First of all,one of my group members says he thinks this code of blog ethics is a little bit formal or serious.After all,most of bloggers are not the professional journalists.So,we only need to follow the basic rules such as marking the source of your information.And he says the bloggers might not have to take the credibility of the blog so seriously for the blog isn't equal to news.However,there is also opinion from Steve,supporting the thought.He assume that the blggoers really have to have some principle to regulate what they posted on blog such as the code of blog ethics-need.For instance,those influential bloggers should really be responsible for the credibility of information or what they wrote.But if the purpose of the blog is only to communicate with your close friends,there might be no need to comply with these priciples completely.
I agree with your point about the necessity of posting links to every resource you use. In my opinion, we should respect others' intellectual property. For example,westerners have stricter standard of plagiarism than
eaterners when using a paragraph/sentence from others' postings, and college students in Taiwan copy their textbooks without concerns.Try to imagine what the Internet community will be without these regulations? It is possible that the web will become a place where people copy and post irresponsible ideas.
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