[eccr] CFP: International Society for the Study of European Ideas - journalism panel

CALL FOR PAPERS





International Society for the Study of European Ideas 9th Conference




University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain





2-7 August 2004







Abstracts (maximum 250 words) are invited by 31 December 2003 which would 
contribute to a panel entitled:





Popular Ethics in Journalism: Individual Burden or Collective Responsibility?



In terms of the major theme of the conference, The Narrative of Modernity: 
Co-Existence of Differences, journalism has been defined to a large extent 
by its attempt to articulate a relationship between the Self and Others who 
it constructs as both imaginary national and social communities and the 
world external to those communities. The various practices of journalism 
are pivotal in the emergence of modernity in the ways in which they have 
allowed abstract ideals of the enlightenment to become articulated on a 
practical, everyday level to an increasing number of citizens. It has also 
achieved this within the confines of modernitys dominant economic 
framework, that of capitalism. Yet more access to information for more 
readers and viewers does not lead unproblematically to a more enlightened 
citizenship. As the movement from journalism as elite resource to popular 
commodity has progressed, the central issue it faces would now appear to be 
that of the ethical dimensions of contemporary journalism and whether they 
are possible to achieve within a populist market. Ethics within journalism, 
for the purposes of this panel, are not restricted to the exercise of 
individual responsibility for the quality of information but also imply the 
extent to which journalism achieves one of its defining goals, enabling an 
informed citizenship to be able to play a full part in democratic political 
processes. In the drive to more profitable, more globalized journalism, is 
a popular ethics possible within journalism, are there examples of its 
existence, what might its contribution be to the ongoing narrative of 
modernity, what are the alternatives? These are the sort of questions which 
this panel seeks to explore. This panel would encourage historical 
perspectives, contemporary analysis and philosophical approaches to these 
problems and welcomes contributions from practitioners and academics 
writing from any methodological perspective.



Abstracts or enquires to:

Dr Martin Conboy

Reader in Popular Journalism

Faculty of Arts and Media

Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College

Farnham

Surrey GU9 
7DS 
(mconboy /at/ surrart.ac.uk)



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