Volume 57 (2024), Edition 4

Our brain processes them faster, they touch us more emotionally and we memorize them better than words: the power of images is great – and so is the potential damage they can cause. At the same time, we have never been surrounded by as many images...

The article examines research-related ethical challenges in dealing with personal image material in science. Based on a literature review and analysis of existing approaches and anonymization methods, the need for differentiated image ethics is...

Editorial offices are increasingly addressing their media users openly, explaining why they show (or don’t show) certain photos, often with reference to social media. In digital photojournalism, competencies in the ethics of imaging are being...

This paper explores the ethical challenges associated with the production and consumption of Internet memes. Key issues such as the mainstreaming of extreme positions, the reproduction of social inequalities, deliberate exclusion processes, and the...

The article deals with the shifting processes of remembering the Holocaust on social media. The research question is: How is the use of photography in the digital world changing, especially after the events of October 7, 2023, the attack on Israel...

Social media content that is not politically, militarily or journalistically labeled is rapidly gaining importance in communication about wars. Emotional live images from war zones play a fundamental role for reconnaissance by intelligence services...

What responsibility does the German government have for the fact that thousands of local staff were left behind in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021? Secret govern- ment files reveal the answer. This article describes what happened when...

The separation of different journalistic representations is considered an essential prerequisite for the credibility of media. In the Code of Honor for the Austrian press, the principle of separation is regulated in point 3 (“distinctness”)....

Wedding photography today is characterized by a highly conventionalized visual language. It is often difficult to tell from the pictures whether the ceremony was religious or civil. If the difference levels off, the question arises as to which norms...

The interaction between the church, church actors and church media has always been exciting and sometimes tense. Based on current developments at Cologne’s Domradio, this essay reflects on the question of the (in)dependence of church media,...