[ecrea] Call for papers: Institute of Communication Ethics Annual Conference, 28 October 2011

Call for papers: Institute of Communication Ethics Annual Conference, 28 
October 2011

The annual conference of the Institute of Communication Ethics is to be 
held on October 28 at the Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, 
London WC2N 5AP, from 10 am to 5 pm. The theme is to be “Cops, Hacks and 
Hackers: Communication and Ethics in the Internet Age”. The on-going 
“Hackgate” controversy, the rise and rise of Twitter and the 
implications for personal privacy and journalistic responsibilities; and 
the Guardian’s use of mobile footage provided by a “citizen journalist” 
in its expose on the death of news vendor Ian Tomlinson on the G20 demo 
in April 2009 provide some of the context for the conference.

Papers are invited on a range of issues:

- Ethics of modern (especially tabloid) journalism
- Internet ethics for journalists
- Hacks and police PR: is the relationship too close?
- Super-injunctions and serial philanderers: are there any solutions?
- The long, murky history of journalists’ relationship with the 
Metropolitan Police
- Is there a special role for social networks in investigative journalism?
- Law and disorder: the coverage of crime in the local media
- What’s the place for an ethically engaged literary reportage in an age 
of sound-bites and PR-fed churnalism?
- The history of Special Branch’s links with mainstream journalists
- How do journalists cover the crimes of the powerful and the wealthy? 
Are there consistent cover-ups in the coverage?
- Can internet-based investigative journalism fulfil the watchdog role 
that the traditional mainstream media have so often failed to provide?
- Has the framing of the WikiLeaks story by the mainstream media 
undermined rather than endorsed the role of whistleblowers?

Abstracts (of 200 words) on these and other related issues should be 
sent to ICE director Prof Richard Lance Keeble, of the University of 
Lincoln, ((rkeeble /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)) before October 2. Papers chosen for the 
conference will be published in a special edition of Ethical Space: The 
International Journal of Communication Ethics (which has gained an A 
ranking in the Australian equivalent of the RAE). Leading figures from 
the world of academia and the communications industries will give 
keynote talks to the conference.

http://www.communicationethics.net/home/index.php
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