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Transparent vs. Opaque: Six New-Media Principles, No. 5

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Because one of its foundational ideas is openness, as I described in yesterday’s post , new media encourages and rewards transparency. One of the ways new media encourages transparency is ethical, as represented by the popular expression, “transparency is the new objectivity.” New Ethics for New Media?

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Ethics: Transparency Is Not All

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In content marketing, that bias tends to be more transparent. In this view, transparency is not in itself a guarantee of ethical content. What interests me in this comment is the way transparency, volitional or not, is viewed as the starting point of ethical content, not the end point. That distinction isn’t always clear.

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The Best Formats Are Invisible

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When new-media thinkers talk about transparency, they’re usually thinking about ethics. The various urges to communicate that constitute what we think of as the magazine will find the transparency that suits them best. LIke every other kind of communication, a magazine is expression, transported in a vehicle.

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Is Advertising in New Media Doomed?

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But to me, at least, one thing is certain: advertising will only work where it is based on transparent, equal, and positive relationships among publisher, advertiser, and consumer. They must respect their audience and practice transparency in all their dealings with them. The answer, unfortunately, is not yet clear.

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Is Advertising in New Media Doomed?

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But to me, at least, one thing is certain: advertising will only work where it is based on transparent, equal, and positive relationships among publisher, advertiser, and consumer. They must respect their audience and practice transparency in all their dealings with them. The answer, unfortunately, is not yet clear.

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Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial

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Its modus operandi is deception, not transparency. Tags: Content Marketing Ethics The Future of Print advertorial old-media transparency trust. Well, advertorial is like an evil twin, lurking in a vague netherworld between or above or below journalism and content marketing.

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Rethinking the Role of “Advertisers”

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Ethics: Is Transparency All We Need? But unlike too many other legacy publishers, they have at least recognized that the old one is broken and will never be mended. Related posts: Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial? Rethinking the Article as the Basic Unit of Journalism.