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Ethics of Digital Photojournalism

Most people can still remember the days when term papers were typed using typewriters, and finding the slightest bit of info meant going to the bookstore or library and looking it up. With modern advances in technology the world has seen drastic changes in society, and most just within the last decade. From TV¡¦s to computers, from record players to CD changers, from cameras to camcorders, just to mention a few; old ways have been taken over by newer, faster, and more efficient technological means. However with so much capability at hand, the power and ability to do these tasks better, also allows for misuse. In the several different ways technology has sparked questions of ethics in today¡¦s world. This paper will reflect on the visual aspects of media, and the various implications technology has had on them. Most of today¡¦s mass communication relies heavily on visual images. From transmitting scenes of epidemics from around the world to magazine articles on restaurants of othe...

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