Legal regulation of digital media in Jordan and its impact on journalistic work:

The study aims to explain the legal regulation of digital media in Jordan and its impact on journalistic work from the point of view of Jordanian journalists working in news websites, and to clarify the role of private legal texts in raising the ceiling of freedom or restricting it by showing the effects that journalists have due to the existence of such texts and sheds The light on the legislation related to digital media and centered on the legal texts in the regulatory articles that were devoted to digital media and trying to analyze them and know the extent to which they go along with what the media system is experiencing and the development it is witnessing, in addition to presenting the various Jordanian legislations that dealt with it, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a descriptive field-survey approach was used. The study population consisted of the Jordanian journalists working in the electronic news websites, which numbered (502) journalists, and the questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of (178) journalists working in the Jordanian news sites.
The data indicate that the highest percentage of Jordanian journalists working in news websites (36.9%) believe that the state of media freedoms has witnessed progress, and the study indicated that the highest percentage of journalists (51.3%) believe that the impact of legislation governing news sites on work The news sites are negative, and there is a statistically significant impact of the legal regulation of digital media in Jordan from the viewpoint of Jordanian journalists on news sites.
The study recommended to the Jordanian legislator several recommendations, the most important of which are: The need to restructure the system of legislation that seeks media freedoms by abolishing freedom-depriving penalties, and amending Article (13) of the Law on Ensuring the Right to Information that broadens the imposition of exceptions on the right to obtain information to comply with Article (19) From the International Institute for Civil and Political Rights, amending Article (11) of the Cybercrime Law by adding a text that excludes its application on websites and users of social media, and working on canceling the text (49 | A | 1) of the Press and Publications Law which requires publications licensing .