New media expand agency but carry no inherent moral compass.

Evidence

This transformative technology has vastly expanded the exercise of personal agency and people’s ability to create personalized environments. Through the global Internet, individuals now have at their fingertips the means to convey information and personal views worldwide, independent of time and place. The ability to bypass gatekeepers provides considerable freedom to select and create symbolic environments that can be transmitted via the Internet to vast populations. Moreover, people can now transcend their proximate environment by way of miniaturized wireless devices that make the vast symbolic environment portable, able to be actualized anytime, any-place. Agentic capability, however, does not come with a built-in value system. It can be used for humane or inhumane purposes. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the vault’s existing claims on media and identity; media technology reshapes both who can act and how violence is rationalized.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 92