[ecrea] Call for Papers: 'II International Conference on Media Ethics', 3-5 April 2013, University of Seville

Call for Papers

‘II International Conference on Media Ethics’, 3-5 April 2013

School of Communication, University of Seville (Spain)

Deadline: 15 January 2013

The University of Seville and the Research Group ‘Critical Thinking, 
Communication and Human Rights’ are organizing the II International 
Conference on Media Ethics, which will take place in Seville from 3rd to 
5th April 2013.

This event follows on from the conference we hosted in 2011, which 
gained excellent feedback from the national and international community. 
In this upcoming edition, papers will go through a double blind 
peer-review process and there will be parallel panels with papers 
delivered in English and Spanish.

Topics should fit within one of the following sections:

1. DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNICATION

- Citizen participation. Issues in 'citizen journalism': right to 
information and freedom of speech versus professional responsibility.

- Ethical dilemmas in political communication.

- Alternative channels of communication.

- Ethics, education and democratic values.

- Information as the basis of media education.

- Journalism and the ethics of public service.

- Ethics and the news coverage of elections.

- The impact of media globalization on democratic systems.

- Communication and political participation.

- New discourses: environmentalism, social justice, technology...



2. HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE COMMUNICATION

- Ethnic and religious minorities in local and global contexts.

- Cultural integration through communication.

- Human rights in the media.2.4 Peace journalism and the prevention of 
conflicts.

- Ethical issues in communication and social development.

- Coverage of suffering in the news.

- The right to privacy, image and honour.

- Representations of children.

- Ethical issues in the coverage of international conflict.

- Immigration in the news.



3. CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL DISCOURSES

- Ethical values in film, radio and/or television in the West.

- Cultural discourses in a globalized world.

- The impact of new technologies on ethics in contemporary societies.

- New forms of social communication and human relations.

- Ethical issues in sports journalism.



4. ETHICS, DEONTOLOGY AND SELF-REGULATION

- The journalist within the vertical structure of the media organisation.

- The journalist and political and economic influences.

- Credibility and social prestige of the journalist.

- Codes of ethics, rules of writing, style books, professional 
associations, press associations and other professional initiatives to 
defend the professional status of journalists.

- Ethical issues in the routine and precariousness of journalism.

- Ethical commitments in news gathering and contrasting sources.

- Protecting the journalist’s work against censorship.

- Pluralism and the right to information.

- Self-regulation in journalism.

- Connections between journalism ethics and the right to information.



5. ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

- Advertising and representations of social groups.

- Codes of ethics in advertising.

- Contemporary values in advertising and the consumer society.

- Boundaries between advertising and information.

- Online advertising: new challenges.

- Ethics of Public Relations and corporate image.



6. ONLINE JOURNALISM

- The journalist in the new online environment.

- Journalists and non-professionals on the Internet.

- Anonymity as a strategy of concealment in online communication.

- Breaking news online.

- Intellectual property and misappropriation of online content.

- Emergence of decentralized and independent communication practices.

- Social networking sites as news sources.

- Ethical issues arising from the dependence on online technologies.

- Impact of mobile devices on new patterns of communication.

- New forms of online communication (social networking sites, blogs, 
wikis...) as tools for citizen participation and news dissemination.



7. GENDER

- Ethical issues and representations of women.

- Representations of women in advertising.

- Gender in cultural discourses (film, television, literature...).

- The coverage of domestic violence.

- Representations of women in marginalized or stigmatized social groups.

- Exclusion of women from the news coverage of specific issues.



8. RESEARCH ON MEDIA ETHICS

- Historical background of research on media ethics.

- Codes of ethics developed by media associations.

- Projects aimed at implementing ethical principles in journalism.

- Press associations and the promotion of journalism codes of ethics.



9. MEDIA LITERACY

- Critical analysis of media discourse as a tool to uncover manipulation 
or bias in the news.

- Creation of new citizen media.

- Relevance of media literacy in educational curricula.

- Use of language and the representation of reality.


Submission guidelines are available on 
http://congreso.us.es/mediaethics/eng-papers-submission.html.

Confirmed speakers include Christian Clifford (University of Illinois), 
Emmanuel Derieux (University of Paris II), Carlos Soria (Innovation & 
Media Consulting), José Manuel Pérez Tornero (Universitat Autonoma de 
Barcelona), Elena Real (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Karen 
Sanders (CEU-San Pablo).

Further information on the event will be updated on 
http://congreso.us.es/mediaethics/eng-index.html. You can also follow us 
on Twitter https://twitter.com/IIConEticaCom and Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/events/398151616904453/



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