205. Name: Zahraa H. Jabbar Title: Social Responsibility of Electronic News Sites: A Comparative Study between the Websites of the of the Iraqi Media Network News Centre, Al Jazeera.Net and BBC Arabic Institution: Baghdad University Country: Iraq Date: 2016 Language: Arabic Abstract: This research deals with the social responsibility of the electronic media, given the freedom that electronic news sites enjoy in presenting and discussing topics. The study seeks to find out whether these sites have been able to adhere to professional and ethical responsibility and serve the community by adhering to professional standards, or that this absolute freedom makes them indifferent with regard to such standards. The research sample consists of three electronic news websites: the Iraqi Media Network News Centre, Al Jazeera.net, and BBC Arabic. These sites were selected on the basis that the Iraqi news center is local; Al Jazeera.net is Arabic and the BBC’s site is international. By analyzing and comparing the news content of these sites, this research attempts to determine the extent to which electronic press is committed to the requirements of social responsibility as well as to professional values such as objectivity, credibility, accuracy, balance, impartiality and clarity. It also sheds light on the topics of interest to those sites and their ability to meet the needs of the audience that follows them and the society at large.
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