Is there a difference between traditional and new media when it comes to addressing moral and ethical issues? Specifically, how do different media forms influence storytelling, and how does storytelling contribute to shaping ethical education and perception? This panel explores these questions by comparing the ethical dimensions of narratives in digital media with those in traditional media. Drawing from literary narratology and intermedia studies, it aims to analyze the complex ethical dynamics of modern storytelling at the intersection of old and new media. The premise is that narrative offers a unique lens for observing ethical changes brought about by convergent culture and digital environments. The focus is on how ethical narratives are crafted, understood, and altered as they transition across media platforms. Narratives today span all cultural domains—literature, cinema, television, video games, comics, advertising—and their ethical aspects are increasingly shaped by the platforms through which they are told. Traditional narratives often depicted moral conflicts through clear oppositions of good and evil (e.g., Antigone, Medea, Hamlet, King Lear). In contrast, contemporary storytelling, especially from the 20th century onward, tends to blur these moral lines, seen in works like Emmanuel Carrère’s L’Adversaire, TV series such as Dexter, Black Mirror, Squid Game, and graphic novels like Watchmen. New and convergent media bring unique ethical and narrative challenges that demand deeper analysis (Smith 1995; Ercolino & Fusillo 2022). While ideas like narrative complexity and "negative empathy" have emerged to describe the changing moral fabric of modern narratives, a comprehensive study of their ethical dimensions is still needed. 

Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): 

• Comparative analyses of ethical storytelling across media (literature, TV, cinema, comics, games)
• The aesthetics of moral ambiguity in contemporary narratives
• Ethical affordances of different media platforms
• Transmedia storytelling and the transformation of ethical perspectives
• Empathy, identification, and spectatorship in morally complex narratives
• The role of narrative structure and temporality in shaping ethical perception
• Posthuman ethics and digital storytelling
• Ethical dilemmas in serialized or interactive media
• The influence of platform logics (e.g., algorithmic recommendation, virality) on moral storytelling
• Narratives as ethical laboratories: fiction as a space for moral experimentation

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that explore how storytelling participates in the reconfiguration of ethics in the contemporary media landscape.