Supervision of content distribution via online media of citizen journalists

Abstract

This article discusses the offense of citizen journalists in presenting content through online media. The current form of communication in the online media changed from one-way communication to two-way communication. Recipients also change roles from news receptors only to simultaneously become a messenger. The change in communication patterns has resulted in citizen journalists who are responsible for presenting news around them. These journalists, however generally preformed their jobs to a particular group of people through ออนไลน์ media such as blogs, web sites, and social media sites. Without the training in journalism. For the dissemination of content through online media, citizen journalists have a great variety of contents and present them in the formats of messages, pictures, videos, live broadcasts via many important social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., and the created websites. The content is published in either legal or illegal manner. The nature of the offense of the citizen journalists appearing in the online media can be identified as follows: 1) presenting false news in the online world, 2) presenting political violence content, 3) presenting erotic content, 4) sexual and obscene, 5) serious language expression, 6) cyber bullying and cybercrimes: youth falling victim to cyber bullying; being threatened to the verge of scary annoyance and anger; being sexually harassed, or abusive with obscenity, 7) providing defamatory content, and 8) providing offensive materials. In addition, this article aims to present the ethics related to the offense of citizen journalists. The laws relating to the offense of four citizen journalists are the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand, BE 2560, The Criminal Code Act, BE 2496, the Act that shall apply the provisions of Part 1 of the Civil and Commercial Code, 1992, and the Act on Offenses Against Computer (No. 2), BE 2560; and City Reduces Offender Law.