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.
Como alternativa al enfoque instrumental con el que ha sido abordado en la literatura académica, desde la perspectiva del estudio la aportación del periodismo ciudadano es el desarrollo de una ética propia producto de la apropiación de prácticas con origen en el periodismo que migran a la vida cotidiana; dicha ética no es estrictamente profesional sino un sistema híbrido de conceptos y valores ciudadanos. Con una perspectiva interdisciplinar y diseño mixto de tipo descriptivo, el artículo plantea una aproximación al perfil del periodismo ciudadano en la frontera noroeste de México, a través del análisis de su ejercicio ético-profesional y la diferenciación en la esfera pública. En los resultados, el análisis de conglomerados y el uso de la Teoría Fundamentada arrojan la combinación de rasgos cívicos, profesionales y amateur. En ambos casos los perfiles se acercan a los sectores vulnerables y mantienen distancia del interés económico y el gobierno.
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