[ecrea] CFP: Hidden Cameras

On October 13-16, 2016 the Broadcast Education Association will be 
holding their first annual Fall Super-Regional Conference at the 
University of South Carolina in Columbia. This three-day conference will 
feature professional and academic training workshops, topical and timely 
panel discussions, and competitions for both scholarly research and 
creative works.

I would like to organize a panel on hidden cameras for this conference. 
I am starting with this as a general topic and looking for papers that 
will address it from any angle. You could think about them strictly in 
terms of the technological changes that are making them possible. You 
could take a legal angle and discuss how the law needs to evolve for 
this issue. You could also think about them as tools in journalism, as 
they were used in the Food Lion case when reporters took jobs at a 
grocery store to catch unsanitary practices there. I would be interested 
in any and all approaches to the topic.

The paper I’m working on for this panel is called Sting and Stunt: 
Recent Uses of Hidden Cameras as Political Tools. There have been a 
number of incidents where people have employed hidden cameras to capture 
political opponents engaged in misdeeds or as part of a plan to induce 
opponents into misdeeds and catch it on camera. The most high-profile 
examples are Mitt Romney’s 47% speech in 2012, anti-abortion activists 
using hidden cameras in conversations with Planned Parenthood employees, 
and conservative activist James O’Keefe using them in publicity stunts 
aimed at capturing liberal groups in compromised positions. I will be 
discussing these and other examples and the (mostly negative) effect 
they will have on American politics.

If you’re interested, please send an abstract by June 5 to 
(robert.spicer /at/ millersville.edu).


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