Between a rock and a hard place. Citizen journalism and journalistic ethics in Mexico

Abstract

This article analyzes and discusses the degrees of functionality and usefulness of the codes of journalistic ethics in the professional practice of citizen journalism in Mexico. At the end of 2016 this country ranked third in the world in index in homicides against journalists, behind only Iraq and Afghanistan. It implements an integrated model of research based on the interdisciplinary perspective and uses a non-experimental quantitative methodology of descriptive scope. The questionnaire measures, based on a scale of evaluation type Likert, fundamentally the construct of the general principles of journalistic ethics, from which the particular ethical values that characterize the exercise of the citizen journalist in Mexico emerge. The article closes discussing, refining and articulating new research questions as a result of the evidence gathered in the group of citizen journalists under study, and in relation to their positions on credibility, trust and quality around the context of which they are part and of which they account.

Keywords
Ethics; Research; Participatory journalism; Interdiscipline; Mexico