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The straightforward connotations of the digital media technologies, mass media, electronic media and its overwhelming impressions on the contemporary digital society, purported that we are at the very commencement of a characterized dispensation regarded as industry 4.0 or information age, conceivably pointing to a paperless civilization in which all media are manufactured and utilized on the digital platforms(S. Murray, 2018). To uphold the ideology and philosophy of objective journalism, the journalists should portray all the facts whether or not they favour or agree with those of the facts especially when they are on the contrary(Asak & Molale, 2020). Independent reportages are expected to represent issues and events in non-aligned, disinterested, impartial, colourless and unbiased approaches, notwithstanding the journalist’s opinion or subjective philosophies, viewpoints and convictions(Lettevall, Somsen, & Widmalm, 2012). Straightforwardness is a responsibility for conveying the exact and factual information, without twisting the narratives in the manner to improve the story or better align an issue with any individualized preconceptions(Brophy, 2016). Technology based innovations can form the basis upon which journalists can develop a high thinking, analytical and programmatic skills in the performance of journalistic expeditions(Guo & Volz, 2019). The digital media have been very significant in a broad and complex influences of the society and in the philosophy of people, primarily for the purpose of journalistic realizations(Dunas & Vartanov, 2020).
The digital media are generally referred to as all or any media that are encoded into computer readable or machine-readable pattern, structure and formats for digital information processing, broadcasting and for dissemination purposes(Durst & Hunter, 2000). The digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on digital electronics devices. Usually, the digital media include computer software, digital images, digital video, video games, web pages, websites, social media, digital data, computer databases, digital audio encoded as MP3 and electronically processed books(A. Murray, 2013). In most scenarios, the digital media are contrasted with print media, such as printed books, newspapers and magazines and other primitive or analog media, such as photographic film, audio tapes or video tapes. The digital media have been very important in the extensive and multidimensional influences on the society wide space and in the beliefs of people, predominantly for the tenacity of journalistic accomplishments (Johansen, 2021). The internet, world wide web (W3), personal digital computers and digital media have contributed to digital innovation in broadcasting, journalism, public affairs relations, entertainment, education, commerce and politics(Paula, 2018). However, the digital media have also posed some set of challenges to copyright and intellectual property laws and regulations, promoting an unrestricted content movement in which content authors freely submit aspect of or all of their official privileges of their intellectual properties or works without reservation.
The direct consequences of the digital media and its impressions on society proposed that we are at the very inception of a brand new dispensation of digital age extreme automation or Internet of Things (IoTs) age, conceivably pointing to a paperless civilisation in which all media are manufactured and utilized on the digital computers(Naseem, 2020). The digital media have some meaningful, all-encompassing and multifaceted impressions on civilization and philosophy of the current digital natives with respect to journalism. The personal computers, smartphones, personal digital assistance and all classes of hand held computing devices have reasonably put the capabilities to access, process, modify, store and transfer digital media content in the custody of billions of individuals(Bennett, 2012). Countless automated devices from digital cameras to drones systems, possessed the capacity to create, communicate and observe digital media, combined with the W3 and the Internet. The transformation have been so precipitous and so prevalent that it has propelled a set of cost-effective changeover through the industrial economy to a digital information and knowledge economy, producing a set of historical human adjustment regarded as the information age(Anderson, Bell, & Shirky, 2015). The modifications had produced some ambiguity on the definitions of the exact dispensation of the current time.