[ecrea] The Future of Media Ethics

The Future of Media Ethics
University of Helsinki, Finland

Date: Friday, 9 December 2016
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Venue: Auditorium XIII, The main building of the University of Helsinki, 
Unioninkatu 34.

The participation in the conference is free of charge. Refreshments will 
be served during the coffee break. Please register by 2 December 2016.
Registration link: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/75226/lomake.html

Description: Over the last two decades or so, the long-established 
fundamentals of media ethics have come under increasingly intense 
scrutiny, leading to a veritable boom of new perspectives on familiar 
problems as well as novel questions that seem to challenge our very 
understanding of what "media ethics" is or what it may become. Driving 
this process is the perception that the professional and technological 
underpinnings of media ethics have undergone and are undergoing 
significant transformations, coupled with the suspicion that the 
normative frameworks developed in the 20th century are not up to the 
task of answering the ethical questions posed by digitalisation, 
globalisation, evolving journalistic practices, and changes in everyday 
uses of media. The proposed responses have ranged from moderate 
revisions of extant principles to more sweeping reforms of the 
professional procedures and academic theories of media ethics - all the 
way to a deeper scepticism regarding the usefulness of ethical codes for 
journalists and other media practitioners, now and in the future.
	What is the outlook for media ethics in professional self-regulation 
and as a field of applied ethics? This one-day symposium seeks to 
advance discussion about the problems and prospects ahead. It will 
address questions such as: What are the central ethical problems facing 
media practitioners and media users today? Can we get along by amending 
extant principles, or does the situation call for more radical measures 
and new ethical frameworks? Will future media ethics still be primarily 
preoccupied with questions of professionalism and news media, or is it 
time to redraw the boundaries of this sub-field in view of the "new 
moral problems" that have emerged in the digital media landscape? What 
will become of such long-cherished norms as truth-telling, objectivity, 
and fairness? Are we witnessing the return of partisan media and an 
acceptance of open activism - and if we are, what ethical ideals are 
then to be maintained, promoted, and taught? What are the media-ethical 
implications of the current boom in "fake news" and resurgent 
nationalism? Can there be a global media ethics, or are we rather 
heading toward growing cultural fragmentation, do-it-yourself ethics, 
and scepticism regarding universal values?

The conference is co-organised by the Communicative Pragmatism and 
Reasonable Pluralism research project (financed by the Academy of 
Finland), the Pragmatic Objectivity research project (financed by the 
Helsingin Sanomat Foundation), the Master's Programme in Media and 
Global Communication at the University of Helsinki, and the Philosophy 
of Communication section of the European Communication Research and 
Education Association.


Programme

9:00-9:10	Introduction: Media Ethics in a "Post-Truth World"? 		Mats 
Bergman (Senior Lecturer, University of Helsinki)

9:10-10:00	Disrupting Journalism Ethics:  Radical Construction of a 
Digital, Global Ethic. 		Stephen J. A. Ward (Distinguished Lecturer in 
Ethics, University of British Columbia)

10:00-10:20	Coffee

10:20-11:10	Journalism Ethics in the Age of Trump. 		Barbie Zelizer 
(Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication / 
Helsingin Sanomat Foundation Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced 
Studies)

11:10-12:00	Stories, Memes and Lies: How Mainstream Journalism Changed 
Its Standards and Enabled the Rise of the Fake Media
		Hanna Nikkanen (Visiting Professor of Journalism, University of Tampere)

12:00-13:20	Lunch break

13:20-14:10	Everything Old Is New Again: The Ethics of Information, 
Virtue, and Care in ICT design, Engineering, and Research
		Charles Ess (Professor in Media Studies, University of Oslo)

14:10-15:00	Ethics in Our Era of Information War - Questions, Proposals 
and Practicalities
		Elina Melgin (Managing Director, ProCom - the Finnish Association of 
Communications Professionals)

15:00-15:20	Coffee

15:20-16:10	International Dimension of Media Ethics: The Challenge for 
Journalism Education
		Kaarle Nordenstreng (Professor Emeritus, University of Tampere)

16:10-17:00	Whose Fault Was This? Media Ethics beyond Media Elites
		Henrik Rydenfelt (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Eastern Finland)


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