Yeni medyanin etik problemi

The aim of this study is to reveal the ethical problems which took place in new media environments. In this regard, first, traditional media, new media and their differences are depicted. Then the ethics and especially journalism ethics, media ethics and new media ethics are studied. In addition, netiquette and citizen journalism are described briefly, which are closely related with new media ethics. In order to exhibit the ethical problems in new media, hate speech, a kind of ethical problem of new media, is selected and as an example the hate speech on the world's leading social networking website Facebook was analyzed. In this analyzes The Facebook web sites of two Turkish national newspapers', Sözcü and Yeni Şafak were searched between 01 January 2019 -15 May 2019 and 5 news from each newspaper were selected, which are directly linked with the "31 March Local Election Process". Then the hate speech content on reader comments of these news on Facebook were analyzed and how hate speech is produced and disseminated on reader comments is described. Within this framework, in conclusion; the importance of new media, its contribution to the development of a society, democracy and freedom of expression is mentioned and the ethical problems of new media and the suggestions to decrease the ethical problems are revealed.