The Ethics of Dialogue: Moral Responsibility and Social Justice in the News Media

Abstract

Ethical receptions of messages, with emphasis on personal relationships and ethics of care, can lead to the value of human relationships and social responsibility of society members. The development of human ethics, especially the ethics of care, can be accompanied by characteristics such as care, compassion, benevolence, fostering kindness and responsibility towards the same kind. The dimensions of dialogue ethics are focused on moral judgment and acceptance of the individual's moral and social responsibility towards the society. Since the components of media literacy include cognitive, emotional, aesthetic and moral dimensions; Therefore, the relationship between dialogue ethics and social responsibility is placed under the ethical dimension of media literacy. Because ethics is one of the constructive aspects of social responsibility. The ethics of dialogue is meaningless without considering the human being and his actions, and moral judgment is a kind of human action in relation to the messages that a person gets from his surroundings. When talking about the media, it is not only about a series of special media such as the press, books, radio, television, satellite, virtual space and their messages, but everything that is around us can act as a media. Because every person can be a media. The main purpose of this article is to examine the ethics of conversation, moral responsibility and social justice in the news media; To be able to show some angles, horizons and challenges facing these concepts through logical analysis. The basic rule of this discussion is to pay attention to the security, health and comfort of everyone, which is the social responsibility and the ability to properly manage it. Keeping in mind that the concept of ethics with the understanding and knowledge of social responsibility, under the title of moral literacy and as one of the aspects of media literacy (cognitive, emotional, aesthetic and moral domains) can be equated with other human needs of the 20th century. And he assumed one for life. Just as ethics is concerned with the personal and individual dimension of decisions and communication behaviors. On the other hand, social responsibility is related to the social aspect and transpersonal issues; And media literacy needs both approaches.