ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how an ethical analysis of the question of responsibility can benefit from the theoretical approaches of the sociology of technology, with a particular focus on Rammert and Schulz-Schaeffer's concept of distributed agency. It presents journalism ethics is conceptualized as a part of media ethics and as normative ethics, related as a subfield to the ethics of philosophy. Most of the computational processes include prioritization, classification, association, and filtering. Not only linked to computational systems and more of an encompassing approach, the ethics of technology focuses on the social context of technology, its prospects, its intended use, and on possible implications for society. Furthermore, the analysis of ethical challenges in computational journalism should not only focus on professional journalists. The chapter also to socio-technical concepts of agency that help to visualize and theoretically frame the interplay between journalistic actors and algorithms.
