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[ecrea] cfp Journalism Ethics
Sun Mar 25 09:03:28 GMT 2012
Call for Paper Abstracts
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*Journalism Ethics: Individual, institutional or cultural?*
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of
Oxford is seeking abstracts of papers for possible presentation at its
conference, "Journalism Ethics: Individual, institutional or cultural?,
September 27-28, 2012.
The conference will explore whether journalism ethics are individually,
institutionally or cultural based, links between ethics and
professionalism, the efficacy of organisational promotion ethical
values, and tensions between ethics, freedom, and informational needs.
Abstracts of papers are sought on topics such as:
*How do ethics and journalistic standards differ?
*Do journalistic practices promote ethics?
*Can you be a professional journalist without ethics?
*Does regulation reduce ethical thinking and behaviour?
*Do press councils and complaint commissions promote ethics or compliance?
*Do ombudsmen and reader's representative promote ethics or protect news
organisations?
*Is ethical thinking related to journalist's unions or independent
societies of journalists?
*Can news organisations be ethical or only journalists?
*Can ethical decision-making practices be integrated in news organizations?
*Are journalism ethics universal or influenced by national cultures?
*Have historical journalism developments influenced journalism ethics?
*Can ethical practices reduce press freedom?
*Do ethical practices reduce public oversight of society?
300-500 word abstracts outlining the topic, approach and theoretical
bases should be submitted by April 1, 2012. Notification of selected
abstracts will be made by April 15.
Submissions should be sent electronically or by post to:
Prof. Robert G. Picard
Director of Research
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
University of Oxford
Oxford OX2 6PS United Kingdom
(robert.picard /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) <mailto:(robert.picard /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>
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