In cases such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami or the 2011 Arab Spring movements , citizen journalists were seen to have been significant sources of facts and information in relation to the events . These were re-broadcast by news outlets , and more importantly , re-circulated by and to other internet users . As Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin state in their book Remediation : Understanding New Media ( 1999 ) : " The liveness of the Web is a refashioned version of the liveness of broadcast television " However , it is commonly political events ( such as ' Occupy ' movements or the Iran Elections of 2009 ) that tend to raise ethical questions and concerns . In the latter example , there had been efforts made by the Iranian government in censoring and prohibiting the spread of internal happenings to the outside by its citizen journalists . This occurrence questioned the importance of the spread of crucial information regarding the issue , and the source from which it came from ( citizen journalists , government authorities , etc. ) . This goes to prove how the internet " enables new forms of human action and expression but at the same time it disables it " Information and Communication Technoethics also identifies ways to develop ethical frameworks of research structures in order to capture the essence of new technologies
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Ethics of technology