Media Education and Media Ethics: An Analysis of Edison Chen’s Photo Scandal

• Main Authors: Wan-Ling Jiang, 江宛菱
• Other Authors: Wei-hsin Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16541276217112698059

碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 傳播學系碩士班 === 99 === After the government abolished publication law in 1999, media regulation not only relies on citizen’s coalition of media reform, but also needs independent management of media organizations. If audiences are the subjectivity of interpretation, not all the problems of communication belong to the responsibility of media industry or the Government. When an audience’s power is awoken, the press would change accordingly. However, this is a question about how to empower. As mentioned above, in order to make neglected opinions respected and then change media organizations, this study considers that it could bring up different perspectives and methods of media education and media ethics through Edison Chen’s photo scandal. Meanwhile, it’s also helpful for promoting ethical consciousness or media actions to the public. To sum up, this study would discuss news stories of Apple Daily, The Liberty Times, United Daily News and China Times about the case of Edison Chen’s scandal from January 29th to February 29th in 2008. After basic analysis, I found differences of four papers. Then, I added ethical decision-making models to explore this case. Finally, some suggestions for the Government, media organizations, educators and audiences according to the results were provided.