Information on privacy in the structure of mass communication. Ethical and legal aspects

Abstract

The article examines forms of violation of rights of privacy caused by the new models of information-communicative behavior of audiences in modern media environment. The author identifies new subjects communicative relations – сivil newsmakers. The transformation of the relations of individuals to the boundaries of personal and others’ privacy is the result of modern technology and creates the real and potential threats to information security of the person.

Keywords

• privacy
• information security of the person
• civil newsmaker
• ethical and legal media literacy
• media culture.