Citizen journalists in the Arab world and the challenges of the digital age - between freedom of expression and publishing ethics-

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the phenomenon of the citizen journalist, which is considered one of the new phenomena in media work, which turns the simple recipient of the media message in the era of classical media into an effective recipient and event maker through the process of producing the media content he desires, especially in light of the rapid digital development we are experiencing, and what modern technology has produced in terms of media and devices that have enabled every simple citizen to be an event maker and able to transmit it, and this results in some violations regarding commitment to media ethics, as the latter is often not aware of them, and at the same time the phenomenon of the citizen journalist has contributed greatly to raising the ceiling of media freedom and media pluralism, as it was a platform that allows a lot of freedom and difference in presenting information, and this is what made us interested in studying the dialectic of freedom of expression and publishing ethics.