Friday, February 6, 2015

                                  DIGITAL ETHICS: CONDUCT OF HONOR
                                                      Author: Randy McNair

Conducting and maintaining Digital Processing with a Code of Honor in the World of Digital Story Telling is known as Digital Ethics. It’s a legal and professional performance when a Media Digital Artist produces Digital Story Telling within the guidelines of Ethical Practice.

Part 1: Core Principles are five principles that keep artist aware of the responsibilities of
1.      Well-Being is producing a project with a positive outlook social, physical, and psychological through its creative process.
2.      Informed Choices that shows freedom of choices that fairly influences the content and production of digital storytelling.
3.      Ownership is accepting responsibility regardless of how the production is received by its’ viewers.
4.      Local Relevance is teamwork that is respected by all local partners that contribute to the production.
5.      Ethics as a continued mandatory condition practiced daily by participants that are part of the creative process.

Part 2: Protection that consists of Readiness, Expectations, Choice, Trauma, Risk, and Confidentiality for all personal information should not be published without consent, Data Protection to safeguard production materials in a secured place. And of the most important legal aspects is Copyright.
Videos, blogs, pictures, literature, and music have copyright protection laws and rules. The Digital Story Telling professionals follow copyright procedures and abide copyright laws by getting legal permission from the rightful owners, to use any part of their productions before they are published online to the General Republic. Generally speaking, keeping aware of Digital Ethics and legal publishing is doing the right thing in the World of Digital Story Telling
                                                   WORK CITED
Lambert, Joe, and Harding, Lucy and Hill, Amy.  “Silence Speaks Digital Story Telling: Guidelines for Ethical Practice”.  Routledge. 2013. New York, NY 10017 also available at: www.silencespeaks.org 2011



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