New Media and Their Implications for the Press Law

Abstract

The birth and presence of new media raises various problems, positive-negative, plus-minus. But the problem certainly does not only lie in technology but also in the user or user. The laws and ethics of communication media are formal rules of conduct imposed by sovereign authorities, such as governments on their people or citizens. In the realm of mass media, there are several regulations governing the implementation and utilization of mass media. In addition to laws and other regulations made by the legislature or government, there is a need for other behavioral guidelines that do not provide physical sanctions, either in the form of imprisonment or fines, but rather moral sanctions to regulate humans in interacting with media that have complex aspects in the form of ethics.