2. Summary of the reading
User-generated content: readers’ comments
Agenda-setting
Ethical decision making
Ethical frameworks of Aristotle and Mill
Discussion
3. More communication opportunities in the digital
public sphere
The feature of leaving comments
The case of animal experimentation in the reading
The case study of Ye Shi Wen
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/s
4. Readers’ comments in agenda-setting
The feature of leaving comments
http://www.dailychilli.com/buzz/19055-namewee-threaten
The against of leaving comments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/944
0248/Ye-Shiwen-16-year-olds-Olympic-swim-
impossible-says-coach-John-Leonard.html
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5. The case of “offensive video clip”
http://www.dailychilli.com/buzz/19055-namewee-
threatens-lin-dan-on-youtube
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6. Based on your knowledge and previous
experience;
Based your habits, or consequences.
7. Aristotle says moral virtues can be acquired by practice
and habituation although it is hard to define a mean
because of our natural tendencies;
any virtue is a mean of tow vices, e.g. courage is a
mean of rashness and cowardice, which is also called
golden mean.
(Aristotle, 2004 [Trans. Thomson]).
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8. Consequences
“Seek the greatest happiness for the greatest number”
“acting ethically means making decisions and taking
actions that benefit people by maximizing ‘good’ and
minimizing ‘bad.’”
(Thomas, 1985)
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9. Do you think online users could engage with agenda-
setting or the agenda-setting processes of established
professional media in today's digital era? How and Why?
Based on ethical frameworks of Aristotle and Mill, or other
ethical principles, What should we keep in mind when we
are making decisions on ethical issues or doing
journalistic practice in the digital public sphere?
(All the examples of animal experimentation, doping and
offensive video clip involve ethical issues. You can take
them as examples )
