Ethics is the key to the future of communication

  • Cristina Baranda del Campo Doctora en Ciencias de la Información por la UCM @CBarandaCampo
Keywords: Ethics, morality, justice, truthfulness, document, information, influence, professional, challenge, behaviors, values, morals principles, documentalist, journalist, communicator, ethical effort.

Abstract

The information professional is a social mediator, his work marks the past, the present and the future of society. It must act with criterion objective, truthful and responsible. As their work will mark the behaviors of citizens and these shall act in a way or another according to the informative attitude taken both professional if it is developing information as if you are documenting a fact or creating an informative source.

It is essential to proceed with objectivity in any action, this will depend on that good results are given or not. No additives, no opinions, no phrases or excessive information that tarnish, distracted or slowing the authentic meaning of the real fact. And that reality is the origin of a document and that of another and of many others. And if on the road the following products are thinning are different from the initial object

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Published
2014-10-14
How to Cite
Baranda del Campo C. (2014). Ethics is the key to the future of communication. Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información, 37, 255-265. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_DCIN.2014.v37.46826
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