Health Communication and Ethics: Analysis of a Health News
Informing and giving information is the main function of the media. It is undisputed that the media should act in the context of ethical rules in the context of the headlines, spots, and content of the news while performing these functions. This is especially the case for health news. Looking at the news in the new media, it seems that the news flow is less controlled than the conventional media. It is not acceptable that a news story about health news is merely interested and conceded by ethical principles in order to increase the rate of clicks. Given the breadth of the access area of the new media and the ease of access opportunities, it is important to examine this issue as a controversial example of published but ethical principles. In the context of the study, it was resolved by the method of discourse analysis of van Dijk, which was published on the website www.etikhaber.com on 14/06/2017 with the title "Phone light can cause you to be short". Considering the headline of the news, it is thought that a scientific study on the possibility that the light of the phone might be short-lived and that it is thought that the news was made by way of the findings obtained, however it has been seen that the news is not based on any scientific data, only a hypothetical report is made, has been reached.
Anahtar Kelimeler: new media, health communication, ethics, content analysis
Health Communication and Ethics: Analysis of a Health News
Informing and giving information is the main function of the media. It is undisputed that the media should act in the context of ethical rules in the context of the headlines, spots, and content of the news while performing these functions. This is especially the case for health news. Looking at the news in the new media, it seems that the news flow is less controlled than the conventional media. It is not acceptable that a news story about health news is merely interested and conceded by ethical principles in order to increase the rate of clicks. Given the breadth of the access area of the new media and the ease of access opportunities, it is important to examine this issue as a controversial example of published but ethical principles. In the context of the study, it was resolved by the method of discourse analysis of van Dijk, which was published on the website www.etikhaber.com on 14/06/2017 with the title "Phone light can cause you to be short". Considering the headline of the news, it is thought that a scientific study on the possibility that the light of the phone might be short-lived and that it is thought that the news was made by way of the findings obtained, however it has been seen that the news is not based on any scientific data, only a hypothetical report is made, has been reached.
Keywords: new media, health communication, ethics, content analysis