Cyber Media and Conflicts: How Journalists are Preventing Violence

Abstract

Cyber media is one of benchmarks in the current digital era as a result of the advance of information and communication technology. The media flood the public with diverse information fast and easy. However, the nature of the media creates challenges that could harm the public. The competition among the cyber media in providing news information often cause journalists to forget ethics of journalism. While publishing news on conflicts in public, at the same time, cyber media, could prolong the conflicts. The research seek to know how media and journalists could avoid further conflicts but still publishing them. The research use a mix method of content analysis of news produced by the cyber media and interviews the journalists. The result of the research shows that journalists could play role in preventing further conflicts that could become violence in public if the the cyber media and their journalist implement the journalistic ethics when producing news.