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SUMMARY:Race\, Gender\, and Toxicity Online Plenary Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois-Chicago)\, Dr. Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)\, Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland)\, Dr. Gina Masullo (The University of Texas at Austin) // April 25th\, 2019 // 9:30am-11:00am // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nSponsored by: Social Science Research Council\, Center for Media Engagement\, and Media & Democracy Network \nThe parallel rise of Black Lives Matter\, #MeToo\, and the so-called alt-right suggests that in 2018\, political realities still vary significantly by race and gender. As ever-greater shares of our time are spent online\, it is important to ask whether these realities are mirrored in the digital public sphere or whether— and how—they differ. Join us in a discussion about the intersection of race\, gender\, and the digital public sphere. \nSpeakers\nDr. Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department\, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago\, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books\, over 70 journal articles and book chapters\, and serves on the editorial boards of 15 journals. Dr. Papacharissi is founding and current Editor of Social Media + Society and is working on her 10th book\, After Democracy\, with Yale University Press. \nDr. Lisa Nakamura is a Professor at the University of Michigan\, where she holds appointments in the university’s American Culture\, Screen Arts and Cultures and Women’s Studies departments. Her research interests include Asian American studies\, feminist theory\, digital game theories and race and gender in new media. Dr. Nakamura has written or co-edited four books about race\, identity\, and the internet and serves on the editorial board of 10 journals. \nDr. Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland. She is also the first project director of Maryland’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded College of Arts and Humanities grant\, Synergies Among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture. Her research targets topics including race\, gender\, digital cultures\, new media\, and online social justice. \nModerator\nDr. Gina Masullo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Assistant Director of the Center for Media Engagement\, both at The University of Texas at Austin\, USA. Her research focuses on the online conversation around the news and how it influences social\, civic\, and political engagement. She is the author of Online Incivility and Public Debate: Nasty Talk and co-editor of Scandal in a Digital Age. She is writing her third book\, The New Town Hall: Why We Engage Personally with Politicians. She spent 20 years as a newspaper journalist before becoming a professor.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/race-gender-and-toxicity-online-plenary-roundtable/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T080000
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SUMMARY:Devaluing The News: How People Appropriate Journalistic Content
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University) // April 11th\, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nHow have our technology and media practices evolved to deal with a world in which we spend 7% of our time awake on social media\,\nrotate computer screens every 12 seconds — and cellphone screens considerably faster — watch the new season of our favorite thriller in four days\, and encounter news stories everywhere and all the time\, even when we want to get away from them? Dr. Boczkowski will be highlighting these answers in his discussion about “Abundance\,” a book manuscript-in-progress. The book offers an account of the lived experience of an exponential increase in the volume and availability of information that has taken place over the past couple of decades. This project draws from 158 interviews conducted between March 2016 and December 2017 in four cities in Argentina\, and a survey of 700 adults administered in Buenos Aires and its suburbs in October 2016. The analysis highlights the enduring yet transformed role played by constellations of meaning and everyday routines; the growing attachment to devices\, relationships\, and content that marks our evolving subjectivity and sociability; and the fundamental instability of a society for which age has become a preeminent organizer of technology and media life. \nPablo J. Boczkowski is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University\, co-director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina\, and senior research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Germany. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the inaugural MSLCE faculty director. He earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2001\, and was on the faculty at MIT from 2001 until he joined Northwestern in 2005. His research program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of three books\, three edited volumes\, over thirty journal articles\, twenty book chapters\, and eighty conference presentations. He is currently the coordinator of Project NET\, a study of the consumption of news\, entertainment\, and technology in Argentina\, Finland\, Israel\, Japan\, and the United States.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/devaluing-the-news-how-people-appropriate-journalistic-content/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190409T153000
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SUMMARY:The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University) // April 9th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nAmerica’s history is marked by a striking image—“black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.” Abel Meeropol—a Jewish American—first articulated this line in his 1937 published poem\, “Bitter Fruit\,” after viewing Lawrence Beitler’s horrific lynching photograph. Although Meeropol eventually put the words to music\, it was jazz singer Billie Holiday’s haunting rendition of the song\, now titled “Strange Fruit\,” first recorded in 1939 that made it a classic. How does one practically and conceptually engage the simultaneous existence of a professed commitment to equality and liberty alongside the fact that white Americans visually digested those with whom they otherwise shared the polity? I engage this vexing issue by reflecting on the normative possibilities latent in Holiday’s performative rendition of Meeropol’s song. \nDr. Melvin Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of “The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion\, Morality\, and the Ethos of Democracy” (Columbia University Press\, 2008) and co-editor of “African American Political Thought: A Collected History” (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in major academic journals as well as popular venues such as Dissent\, The Atlantic\, Public Seminar\, and Boston Review. Rogers serves as the co-editor of the New Histories of Philosophy series at Oxford University Press. Presently\, he is at work on his second book\, “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race\, Democracy\, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.” \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. \nMedia Ethics Initiative events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-spectacle-of-lynching-redeployed-on-the-performance-of-democratic-regard/
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SUMMARY:Understanding News Avoidance: Perceptions About Audiences
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota) // April 5th\, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.102 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nOne of the most consistent themes in communication research is the assumption that journalism’s main democratic function is to transmit information so people can make informed political decisions and hold power to account. But a considerable share of the public say they rarely or never follow the news\, limiting participation in civic life. This presentation will provide an overview of research on this phenomenon of “news avoidance\,” summarizing findings from an ongoing project involving in-depth interviews with news avoiders in the UK\, Spain\, and\, in its next phase\, the US as well. Much of the presentation will focus on a particular theory flowing from this research: an identity-based model of news use and avoidance. Whereas most scholarship presumes that people derive a combination of informational and “ritual” benefits from consuming news\, we argue much is contingent upon how individuals view themselves and the communities they belong to. That is\, news habits are particularly shaped by social identity and social relations: perceptions concerning the status of people who consume news and exposure to conversations about news. For news avoiders\, high costs of consuming news in terms of time or emotional resources are not offset by perceived benefits because the value of political information is contingent on whether people feel they belong to groups where knowledge of such information is deemed valuable as social currency. So long as such dynamics shape whether people develop news consumption habits\, efforts to increase news use among the broader public by focusing merely on the content of news may have a limited impact. \nDr. Ben Toff is an Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. He studies the changing media landscape and its impact on journalistic practice\, elite messaging\, and how citizens engage in political and civic life. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016\, and from 2005-2011\, he was a researcher on the editorial page of the New York Times.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/understanding-news-avoidance-perceptions-about-audiences/
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SUMMARY:Challenges to the News-Information-Democracy Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Esther Thorson (Michigan State University) // March 28th\, 2019 // 5:00pm-6:15pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 3.206 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nThere is much research that assumes traditional news use leads to knowledgeable citizens who actively participate in their democracy. Recent work in partnership with the Florida Times-Union newspaper (Jacksonville) has led Dr. Thorson to question whether “news information” is critical to democratic participation\, and explore other routes to that participation. She welcomes your insights into the models of participation she is presently exploring. \nProfessor Thorson joined the MSU faculty in fall\, 2016. During the prior 23 years she was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Thorson is one of the most cited scholars in advertising\, and the Interactive Advertising Model (with Shelly Rodgers\, 2000; 2017) is one of the most-cited theory articles in advertising. The second edition of their edited book on internet advertising (Rogers & Thorson\, Digital Advertising) appeared in 2017. The third edition of their edited advertising theory text (Rogers & Thorson\, Theories of Advertising) was published in 2017. \nThorson also studies the relationships between news consumption and political participation. One of the foci of this work is how youth learn about and become involved in politics. Her co-edited book published in 2016 summarizes much of this work (Thorson\, Mitchell\, & Shah\, Political socialization in a media-saturated world). Thorson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising and of the International Communication Association. In 2017 she was awarded AEJMC’s Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award and this year will receive the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/challenges-to-the-news-information-democracy-narrative/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190326T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190326T163000
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SUMMARY:Cloak of Invisibility: Perceived Privacy and the Ethical Study of Digital Fan Culture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Suzanne Scott (The University of Texas at Austin) // March 26th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nWhat ethical challenges arise when scholars research the passionate fan communities that surround popular films\, games\, or books? Because many academics studying fan culture self-identify as fans and also participate in the fan communities they study\, there has long been an unspoken “fans first” policy governing approaches to ethics in the field. But what happens when we ethically feel we owe our research subjects more protections than those required by our Internal Review Boards (IRB)\, and if so\, what motivates this and would these protections meaningfully look like? This presentation will contextualize ongoing ethical debates around whether fan discourse and forms of textual production (like fanfiction or fanart) should be conceptually approached as “texts” or “people.” Through a survey of these histories and core ethical debates\, we will explore several interrelated issues ranging from the perceived privacy of fan communities to the ethical best practices of researching industry/fan interactions through contemporary case studies. \nDr. Suzanne Scott is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests include fan studies\, media convergence\, digital and participatory culture\, social media\, transmedia storytelling\, comic book culture\, and gender studies. Dr. Scott’s current book project\, “Fake Geek Girls: Fandom\, Gender\, and the Convergence Culture Industry” (NYU Press\, April 2019)\, considers the gendered tensions underpinning the media industry’s embrace of fans as demographic tastemakers\, professionals\, and promotional partners within convergence culture. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/cloak-of-invisibility-perceived-privacy-and-the-ethical-study-of-digital-fan-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190219T153000
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SUMMARY:Media Freedom and the Middle East: Pursuing a Self-Regulatory Approach in Qatar
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 19th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nLaws throughout the Middle East and North Africa dramatically limit freedom of expression by prohibiting journalists from engaging in basic newsgathering functions\, including taking video and photos in public. Historically\, journalists and the general public alike have faced potential criminal punishment for violation of these laws\, which also often prohibit the publication of information deemed offensive\, embarrassing or sensitive. Recently\, however\, Qatar has begun to explore ways to promote media freedom and Western investment in media through the initiation of the Qatar Media Hub. Organizations operating through the QMH would ascribe to a code of professional ethics as a means of regulation\, potentially taking them outside the scope of traditional criminal law. During a recent consulting trip to the country\, I urged government leaders to adopt this self-regulatory approach in lieu of traditional government regulation as a means of advancing free expression. My current work explores the benefits of ethical self-regulation as well as global approaches to media self-regulation in the hope of drafting a workable model for Qatar’s new initiative. \nDr. Amy Kristin Sanders is an award-winning former journalist\, licensed attorney and associate professor. Before joining the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin\, she taught for more than four years at Northwestern University’s campus in Doha\, Qatar. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and new technology as it relates to media freedom. Specifically\, she focuses on international and comparative media law and policy issues\, including media freedom\, Internet governance\, social media and digital literacy. She has authored more than 20 scholarly articles in numerous law reviews and mass communication journals\, and she is a co-author of the widely recognized casebook “First Amendment and the Fourth Estate: The Law of Mass Media.” \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Follow Media Ethics Initiative – UT Austin and Center for Media Engagement for more information. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/media-freedom-and-the-middle-east-pursuing-a-self-regulatory-approach-in-qatar/
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SUMMARY:CME Presents: The Science of Humor in Science Communication
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sara K. Yeo (University of Utah) // February 18th\, 2019 // 10:30am-11:30am // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nSara K. Yeo (Ph.D.\, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Her research interests include science and risk communication\, public opinion of STEM issues\, and information seeking and processing. Her work has been published in journals such as Risk Analysis\, Energy Policy\, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly\, and Materials Today. She has also written articles for popular science magazines\, such as The Scientist and New Scientist. \nOriginally from Malaysia\, Dr. Yeo is trained as a bench and field scientist and holds an M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her training in ecology and the life sciences has been invaluable to her research at the intersection of science\, media\, and politics.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/cme-presents-the-science-of-humor-in-science-communication/
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SUMMARY:The Ethical Operating System
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Samuel C. Woolley (The University of Texas at Austin) // January 28th\, 2019 // 1:30pm-3:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nJoin the Technology & Information Policy Institute and the Media Ethics Initiative as they host Samuel C. Woolley\, Assistant Professor in the Journalism School at the Moody College of Communication. Professor Woolley will present his talk\, The Ethical Operating System: How Not to Regret the Things You Build \nThe current wave of computational propaganda has taken the world by surprise. Technology firms\, policymakers\, journalists and the general public are scrambling to respond to the societal threats posed by disinformation and politically motivated trolling. This talk outlines one method for responding to these issues. It describes and presents the Ethical Operating System (ethicalOS.org)\, a toolkit for anticipating future uses of technology. Jane McGonigal and Samuel Woolley\, with support from Omidyar Network\, constructed this guide to help a wide variety of groups think about how to design technology with democracy and human rights in mind. The toolkit has been used by major companies in Silicon Valley\, by legislators at the state and federal level and by students in Stanford’s design school and intro to computer science courses. It’s time\, however\, to put into the hands of the U.S. public so that they can help in the fight against disinformation and manipulative technology. \nSamuel C. Woolley will join the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in Fall 2019. He has affiliations as a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford\, as a visiting scholar at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California at Berkeley\, and as a research affiliate at the Project for Democracy and the Internet at Stanford University. \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nCo-sponsored by the Technology & Information Policy Institute\,\nGood Systems\, and the Media Ethics Initiative
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-ethical-operating-system/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181125T080000
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SUMMARY:Journalism Ethics amid Irrational Publics: Disrupt and Redesign
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Stephen J. A. Ward (University of Wisconsin) // November 5th\, 2018 // 3:00pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nHow can journalism ethics meet the new challenges to democracy in the era of fake news and real political problems? In this engaging talk\, prominent media ethicist Stephen J. A. Ward argues that journalism ethics must be radically rethought to defend democracy against irrational publics\, demagogues\, and extreme populism. In an age of intolerance and global disinformation\, Ward recommends an engaged journalism which is neither neutral nor partisan. He proposes guidelines for covering extremism as part of a “macro-resistance” by society to a toxic public sphere. \nDr. Stephen J. A. Ward is an internationally recognized media ethicist\, author and educator\, living in Canada. He is a Distinguished Lecturer on Ethics at the University of British Columbia\, founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin\, and director of the UBC School of Journalism. He was a war correspondent\, foreign reporter and newsroom manager for 14 years and has received a lifetime award for service to professional journalism in Canada. He is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Springer Handbook for Global Media Ethics\, and was associate editor of the Journal of Media Ethics. Dr. Ward is the author of 9 media ethics books\, including two award-winning books\, Radical Media Ethics and The Invention of Journalism Ethics. Also he is the author of Global Journalism Ethics\, Ethics and the Media\, and Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives. His two new books\, Disrupting Journalism Ethics and Ethical Journalism in a Populist Age were published in 2018. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public. \n**Co-sponsored by School of Journalism – University of Texas at Austin** \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/journalism-ethics-amid-irrational-publics-disrupt-and-redesign/
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Public Relations
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Lucente (Founder & President of Red Fan Communications) // October 30th\, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhat ethical challenges await the public relations professional? Kathleen Lucente\, the Founder and President of Red Fan Communications\, discusses a range of ethical choices and challenges facing those in the public relations profession\, including: ensuring that reporters are fair\, just\, and honest in their coverage of one’s client\, dealing with inappropriate client relations\, maintaining honesty and transparency between a client and agency\, and the challenges maintaining your client’s reputation while also maintaining yours as an agency in situations of crisis. This talk will be of interest to students wishing to pursue careers in public relations\, as well as scholars researching the practices and effects of public relations. \nAfter a successful and award-winning career working for IBM\, JPMorgan\, Ketchum Worldwide and other global brands and agencies\, Kathleen Lucente moved to Austin just as the city became a hotbed for tech startups and investment. She is the founder and president of Red Fan Communications\, an Austin-based public relations firm that has helped countless companies clarify their purpose\, tell their unique stories\, and establish lasting relationships with clients and customers. She serves on several boards and donates much of her and her staff’s time to local nonprofits that have tangible impact throughout the community\, including the Trail of Lights\, the ABC Kite Fest\, the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians\, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Follow MEI and CME on Facebook for more information. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public. \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/ethics-in-public-relations/
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SUMMARY:Is Incivility Ever Ethical?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gina Masullo (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 16th\, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nThe current debate over incivility in the public discourse often leaves out an important component – sometimes the most ethical choice is to speak out\, even if some people view your speech as uncivil. The need to be civil at all costs can become a tool of the privileged to silence and symbolically annihilate the voices of those with less power in society\, specifically women\, people of color\, or those from other marginalized groups. Media outlets can perpetuate this silencing by focusing on the “civility” – or lack thereof – of the message\, rather than the content. Compounding this problem is the issue that people define what’s uncivil in varied ways – including everything from a raised voice to hate speech. UT Austin Assistant Professor Gina Masullo Chen will draw on potent examples from today’s headlines\, including Colin Kaepernick’s “take-a-knee” protest during the national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice and some politicians’ refusal to speak to their angry constituents. Her argument is not that incivility is good. Rather\, she asserts that sometimes the ethical cost of silence is greater than the normative threat to civil discourse from what some may perceive as incivility. \nDr. Gina Masullo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Assistant Director of the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the online conversation around the news and how it influences social\, civic\, and political engagement. She is the author of Online Incivility and Public Debate and co-editor of Scandal in a Digital Age. She is currently writing her third book\, The New Town Hall: Why We Engage Personally with Politicians. She spent 20 years as a newspaper journalist before becoming a professor. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are free and open to the public. \n**Co-sponsored by School of Journalism – University of Texas at Austin** \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/is-incivility-ever-ethical/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180925T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T183609Z
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SUMMARY:BYOD! Should We Really Ask New College Grads and Employees to Bring their Own Devices to Work?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Keri K. Stephens (The University of Texas at Austin) //September 25th\, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nAt first glance\, it might sound great to get to choose the cell phone and computer you want to use at work. After all\, you might like iPhones and your colleague likes Androids. But what people overlook is that “bring your own” often means you are also paying for these devices and agreeing to rules that few people ever read. Come join us for a Media Ethics Talk by Keri K. Stephens\, where she will share some of the hidden issues of control that new college graduates\, as well as people in many stages of their career\, face with BYOD policies. This research is from her recently published book\, Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication (Oxford University Press). \nDr. Keri K. Stephens’ research and teaching interests bring an organizational perspective to understanding how people interact with communication technologies\, and she focuses on contexts of crisis\, emergency\, disaster\, workplaces\, and healthcare. She is an Associate Professor in the Organizational and Communication Technology Group in the Department of Communication Studies\, a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Health & Social Policy in the LBJ School of Public Policy\, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Health Communication. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public. \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/byod-should-we-really-ask-new-college-grads-and-employees-to-bring-their-own-devices-to-work/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180919T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180919T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T183306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T173908Z
UID:13324-1537344000-1537376400@mediaengagement.org
SUMMARY:Feeling Rules\, Media Ethics\, and the Moral Foundation Dictionary
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sven Joeckel (University of Erfurt\, Germany) // September 19th\, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nWhat does psychology have to tell us about the impact of media on our emotions and moral judgments? Does media make us better moral agents? In this discussion\, two visiting researchers from Germany will speak on how media shapes our “feeling rules” and the connection between moral values and political communication. Attention will also be given to how moral psychology can help us understand the ideological content of media texts. \nDr. Sven Joeckel is Professor for Communication with a focus on children\, adolescents and the media at the University of Erfurt\, Germany. Since 2009\, he has chaired the M.A. program in Children\, Adolescents\, and the Media at the University of Erfurt. His research interests are adolescents’ use of media\, mobile privacy research as well as the relationship between media use and morality. Dr. Leyla Dogruel is Assistant Professor for Media Systems and Media Performance at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz\, Germany. Her research interests include media innovation theory\, online privacy\, and media structures. \nFree and open to the public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/feeling-rules-media-ethics-and-the-moral-foundation-dictionary-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180425T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T173925Z
UID:13196-1524670200-1524673800@mediaengagement.org
SUMMARY:Media Criticism in Turbulent Times: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rod Hart (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Trish Roberts-Miller (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Michael Butterworth (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Barry Brummett (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Trish Roberts-Miller (The University of Texas at Austin) // April 25th\, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhat is the role of media criticism in our turbulent political times? How should we react to the messages and myths our movies\, news\, and politicians attempt to sell to us? Is being “critical” a bad word for democratic citizens? In this exciting Media Ethics Initiative event\, a panel of distinguished communication scholars will discuss the role of criticism and critics in navigating all the media we experience in our technological democracy. Drawing upon their work in rhetoric\, communication studies\, and media studies\, our panelists will consider the limits of criticism as well as its importance in tumultuous times such as our present. Confirmed participants include: \nDr. Rod Hart / Communication Studies\nDr. Trish Roberts-Miller / Rhetoric & Writing\nDr. Michael Butterworth / Communication Studies\nDr. Barry Brummett / Communication Studies\nDr. Trish Roberts-Miller / Rhetoric & Writing \nModerated by Dr. Scott Stroud / Communication Studies \nFree and open to the public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/media-criticism-in-turbulent-times-a-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180410T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180410T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T151641Z
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Donald Heider (Loyola University Chicago) // April 10th\, 2018 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nVirtual Reality gives participants the chance to enter immersive and interactive media environments. As with many new technologies\, the tools might require our consideration of the implications of these tools. What are ethical implications of virtual reality for journalism\, film-making and other communication fields? This talk will explore the exciting new possibilities and challenges that virtual reality opens up for a range of media practices. \nDr. Donald Heider is the Associate Provost for Strategy & Innovation and Founding Dean at the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago and Founder of the Center for Digital Ethics & Policy. He is author\, co-author\, or editor of eight books including two volumes of Ethics for a Digital Age\, the latest of which is due out in 2018. Dr. Heider is a multiple Emmy-award winning producer who spent ten years in news before entering the academy. He served previously as Associate Dean at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin\, Colorado\, and University of Mississippi. \nCo-sponsored by the School of Journalism\, UT Austin \nFree and open to the UT community and general public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-ethics-of-virtual-reality/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180403T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180403T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T174019Z
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SUMMARY:How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois University) // April 3rd\, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhether we recognize it or not\, we are in the midst of a robot invasion. The machines are now everywhere and doing virtually everything. We chat with them online. We play with them in digital games. We collaborate with them at work. And we rely on their capabilities to help us manage all aspects of our increasingly data-rich\, digital lives. As these increasingly capable devices come to occupy influential positions in contemporary culture—positions where they are not just tools or instruments of human action but social actors in their own right—we will need to ask ourselves some intriguing but rather difficult questions: At what point might a robot\, an algorithm\, or other autonomous system be held responsible for the decisions it makes or the actions it deploys? When\, in other words\, would it make sense to say “It’s the computer’s fault?” Likewise\, at what point might we have to seriously consider extending something like rights—civil\, moral or legal standing—to these socially active devices? When\, in other words\, when would it no longer be considered non-sense to suggest something like “the rights of robots?” In this engaging talk\, David Gunkel will demonstrate why it not only makes sense to talk about these things but also why avoiding this subject could have significant social consequences. \nDr. David J. Gunkel is an award-winning educator\, scholar\, and author\, specializing in the study of information and communication technology with a focus on ethics. Formally educated in philosophy and media studies\, his teaching and research synthesize the hype of high-technology with the rigor and insight of contemporary critical analysis. He is the author of over 50 scholarly journal articles and book chapters and has published 7 books. He is the managing editor and co-founder of the International Journal of Žižek Studies and co-editor of the Indiana University Press series in Digital Game Studies. He currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University\, and his teaching has been recognized with numerous awards. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/how-to-survive-the-robot-apocalypse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180310T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180310T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20200318T184918Z
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SUMMARY:Making Politics Go Viral (Like Puppies): CME SXSW Panel
DESCRIPTION:March 10th\, 2018 // 5:00pm-6:00pm // JW Marriott Austin \nDonald Trump and other politicians are using social media to bypass the media and get their message straight to the public. So what can news organizations do to get their political content noticed? In this interactive session\, panelists will share their experiences and research on what makes news content – specifically political content – go viral. Attendees will leave with new\, creative ideas for how to better reach their social media audience ahead of the 2018 election.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/making-politics-go-viral-like-puppies-cme-sxsw-panel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180306T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T173959Z
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SUMMARY:Hacking Big Data: Discovering Vulnerabilities in a Sociotechnical Society
DESCRIPTION:Dr. danah boyd (Microsoft Research\, Data & Society) // March 6th\, 2018 // 5:00pm-6:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 1.202 \nData-driven and algorithmic systems increasingly underpin many decision-making systems\, shaping where law enforcement are stationed and what news you are shown on social media. The design of these systems is inscribed with organizational and cultural values. Often\, these systems depend on the behavior of everyday people\, who may not act as expected. Meanwhile\, adversarial actors also seek to manipulate the data upon which these systems are built for personal\, political\, and economic reasons. In this talk\, danah will unpack some of the unique cultural challenges presented by “big data” and machine learning\, raising critical questions about fairness and accountability. She will describe how those who are manipulating media for lulz are discovering the attack surfaces of new technical systems and how their exploits may undermine many aspects of society that we hold dear. Above all\, she will argue that we need to develop more sophisticated ways of thinking about technology before jumping to hype and fear. \nDr. danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research\, the founder and president of Data & Society\, and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society. Her most recent books – “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” and “Participatory Culture in a Networked Age” – examine the intersection of everyday practices and social media. She is a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, a Director of both Crisis Text Line and Social Science Research Council\, and a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nCo-sponsored by the Global Media Industry Speaker Series \nFree and open to the UT community and general public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/hacking-big-data-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-a-sociotechnical-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180227T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T151603Z
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SUMMARY:The Real Ethics of Fake News
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 27th\, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:15pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nIs fighting fake news as simple as it seems to be? What ethical challenges will our efforts to stomp out fake news create? More and more attention is being directed at the impact of fake news on American democracy. Scholars in a range of fields are attempting to determine who is behind fake news propaganda efforts\, what its effects are\, and how to combat it using technological means. This study looks at the ethical issues raised in the fight against fake news. By developing an outline of a pragmatist media ethics\, this article examines the complex ethical terrain of the seemingly simple problem of fake news. Additionally\, the pragmatist approach to fake news also allows us to highlight the conflicting values and outcomes at stake in our attempts to conceptualize and eradicate this new ethical challenge in our social media environments. Such an imaginative engagement with the phenomenon of fake news on its own terms is an essential first step in diagnosing its ethical challenges and potential solutions. \nDr. Scott Stroud is the Director of the Media Ethics Initiative and an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research covers a range of topics in communication and philosophy. He is the author of John Dewey and the Artful Life (Pennsylvania State University Press\, 2011)\, Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric (Pennsylvania State University Press\, 2014)\, and A Practical Guide to Ethics: Living and Leading with Integrity (co-authored with Rita Manning\, Westview Press\, 2007). He has published work on a variety of topics in media ethics\, including blogging ethics\, revenge porn\, and the online activism of Anonymous. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-real-ethics-of-fake-news/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180222T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180222T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T184918Z
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SUMMARY:Engaging Newsrooms in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Talia Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 22nd\, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC 5.102) \nSome think our democracy is in trouble\, and that our news media hold the key to fixing our problems. How can our scholarship guide news media in such a role? Does what we do in our colleges and universities matter for improving newsrooms and how they contribute to society? In this talk\, Dr. Talia Stroud will show how doing research that matters for democracy is not a new topic. Drawing on a variety of research projects conducted by the Center for Media Engagement\, she will explore effective ways that research can help news media increase civility among commenters\, increase citizen engagement with news stories\, and more. Journalism can help sustain our democratic institutions and practices\, but only if we guide it in an intelligent and reflective fashion. \nDr. Natalie (Talia) Stroud is the Director of the Center for Media Engagement and Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book\, Niche News (Oxford\, 2011)\, examines likeminded political media use and the challenges it presents to democracy. The book received the 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the International Communication Association. Stroud previously worked at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications and grant-funded research cover a variety of topics related to citizen engagement in news and social media. Her research has appeared in Political Communication\, Journal of Communication\, Political Behavior\, Public Opinion Quarterly\, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication\, and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. \nFree and open to the public \n[Video]
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/engaging-newsrooms-in-the-digital-age/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180130T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180206T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T184810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T174120Z
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SUMMARY:The Preference for Idealized Imagery in the Media and Detrimental Self-Perceptions Among Women – When does it Begin?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kate Pounders (The University of Texas at Austin) // January 30th\, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nA large body of work has documented exposure to idealized and unattainable imagery in the media in the form of body size has a negative impact on young women. Previous research has primarily used social comparison as the theoretical framework to examine these effects. This talk will highlight a study that examined the impact of idealized imagery on both ad and self-outcomes with college women\, as well as an ongoing study that examines these effects in girls 8-10 years old. \nDr. Kate Pounders is a consumer psychologist who investigates emotions\, goals\, and the self. Her research focuses on the role of emotion and identity in the contexts of communication strategy effectiveness and health communication. Dr. Pounders is especially interested in the role that emotion and gender identity play in understanding women’s reactions to persuasion strategy and health issues. Other areas of interest include motivation and information processing. She has published work in the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science\, Journal of Advertising\, Journal of Advertising Research\, Journal of Health Psychology\, Psychology and Marketing\, Journal of Current Issues in Advertising\, European Journal of Marketing\, Journal of Medical Internet Research\, and the Journal of Communications in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Association for Consumer Research\, the Academy of Marketing Science\, and the American Academy of Advertising. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-preference-for-idealized-imagery-in-the-media-and-detrimental-self-perceptions-among-women-when-does-it-begin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T190238Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics and the Appeal to Scientific Consensus in the Climate Change Debates
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jean Goodwin (North Carolina State University) // November 14th\, 2017 // 2:00pm-3:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhat are the ethical choices being made when arguers claim that there is a scientific consensus backing their stance on climate change? Is this a simple claim to make\, or a complex ethical choice that limits other possibilities in discussing the changing climate? Contemporary argumentation theory has shown that arguers themselves are responsible for creating the local ethical terrain in which they are obligated to make and consider good arguments. Since the first IPCC report in 1990\, scientists and their allies have imposed on themselves an obligation to build climate policy on the firm foundation of a scientific consensus. More than a quarter-century later\, it is now apparent that this obligation cannot be met. The interminable debates over consensus have distorted public deliberations about vital issues of climate policy and created enemy climate tribes. It is time to stop. Rhetoricians–who should have known better from the beginning–can point to some more productive approaches. \nDr. Jean Goodwin\, a professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University\, studies how scientists can communicate appropriately and effectively to non-expert audiences. Her research examines how citizens who deeply disagree can nevertheless manage to reason with each other. The communication techniques she uncovered among ancient Roman orators and contemporary policy advocates have proved surprisingly relevant to the challenges scientists face when they try to earn trust in controversial contexts. Goodwin uses discourse analysis to tease out the ways outstanding scientist-communicators address difficult audiences on topics such as GMOs and climate change. She also uses conceptual analysis to connect these practices to broader theories of the responsibilities and roles scientists can undertake in civic life. Her National Science Foundation-funded project\, Teaching Responsible Communication of Science\, crafted case studies that invite science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate students to address communication challenges based on actual events. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/ethics-and-the-appeal-to-scientific-consensus-in-the-climate-change-debates/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171106T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171106T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T190106Z
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SUMMARY:The Dark Side of Social Media: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Gary Wilcox (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Jonathan Henson (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Allye Doorey (The Richards Group) // November 6th\, 2017 // 1:00pm-2:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhat is the dark side to social media use? What can be done to improve our social media landscape? What are the ethical values and issues with our constant digital monitoring and publicizing of our every activity? Join the editor and authors of the recent book\, The Dark Side of Social Media\, for a discussion over how the internet and our social media activities can go tragically wrong. Topics discussed will include online privacy\, wearable technologies\, online revenge porn\, and the power of blogging. \nFeaturing: \nDr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum\, Advertising\, UT Austin\nAllye Doorey\, The Richards Group\nDr. Gary Wilcox\, Advertising\, UT Austin\nDr. Scott R. Stroud\, Communication Studies\, UT Austin\nJonathan Henson\, Communication Studies\, UT Austin \nFree and open to the UT community and general public \nPanel Video
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-dark-side-of-social-media-a-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171026T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T190015Z
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SUMMARY:Are New Media Technologies Good for Education and Democracy?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gregory F. Pappas (Texas A&M University ) // October 26th\, 2017 // 12:30pm-2:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nWe live in a digital-electronic age and the internet is becoming more the central medium of information and communication. Dr. Gregory Pappas\, a philosopher in the pragmatist tradition\, explores the following questions and provide some answers in this research talk. Are the new media technologies good for education or the improvement of learning? Do they help us solve the crisis of education today? How do they foreground certain concepts of the “good” or “bad” when employed in education? What do these new media technologies mean for a deep sense of democracy\, or the view inherent in some strains of American thought that seeks to improve citizen participation and empowerment? \nDr. Gregory Fernando Pappas is a Distinguished Fellow for the Latino Research Initiative at The University of Texas at Austin and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. Dr. Pappas works within the American Pragmatist and Latin American traditions in ethics and social-political philosophy. He is the author of the books Pragmatism in the Americas and John Dewey’s Ethics: Democracy as Experience; he is also the editor-in-chief of The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy and the Vice President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. His current research project\, “An Inter-American Approach to the Problems of Injustice\,” develops a theoretical framework for approaching problems of injustice in Latino communities\, drawing on the insights of philosophers (e.g.\, Luis Villoro\, Gloria Anzaldua\, Jane Addams\, John Dewey) concerned with local injustices in different regions of the Americas. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/are-new-media-technologies-good-for-education-and-democracy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171019T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171019T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185919Z
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SUMMARY:Media Psychology’s Explanation for Why You Love Stories: A Morally Ambiguous Resolution
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robert Lewis (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 19th\, 2017 // 11:30am-12:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nMost people spend their leisure time engaged in social interactions and mediated stories. My long-term goal is to examine the intersection of these two behaviors. I believe mediated stories are part of a larger set of nonlinear communication processes able to bind and polarize social groups. Explaining these processes is fundamental for media scholars\, and useful for practitioners who rely on trust to persuade audiences. This talk identifies previously unexplored avenues for how mediated stories enhance interpersonal trust and cooperation. The talk will also discuss broadly the influence of recent advances in moral psychology and their impact on media and entertainment theory. \nDr. Robert Lewis studies moral clarity and moral ambiguity in narrative entertainment\, including how do the media synchronize our thoughts and emotions so that we can cooperate as a society. His research helps tie together different theoretical approaches in communication and related disciplines with the common explanatory threads of moral clarity\, moral ambiguity\, and the interpersonal-level effects they elicit. His work is published in outlets such as the International Journal of Arts & Technology\, Mass Communication & Society\, Journal of Communication\, and Cyberpsychology\, Behavior\, and Social Networking. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/media-psychologys-explanation-for-why-you-love-stories-a-morally-ambiguous-resolution/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171011T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171011T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T093152
CREATED:20190429T185825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T151741Z
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SUMMARY:Anthems and Activism: Mediating the Politics of the NFL
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael L. Butterworth (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 11th\, 2017 // 1:00pm-2:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nIn recent months\, professional football players have used the national anthem ceremony as a stage for political protest. Such moments of activism have sparked significant conversation and controversy\, and they have also received substantial media coverage. This talk examines the ethical and historical context for political protest in sports\, considers the relationship between the NFL and sports media\, and speculates about the future of activism during the national anthem and beyond. \nDr. Michael L. Butterworth is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Director of the Center for Sports Communication & Media at the University of Texas at Austin. His research explores the connections between rhetoric\, politics\, and sport\, with particular interests in national identity\, militarism\, and public memory. He is the author of Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror\, co-author of Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field\, and editor of Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
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SUMMARY:Can We Shop Our Way to a Better Planet? The Promises and Pitfalls of Green Consumption
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lucy Atkinson (The University of Texas at Austin) // September 21st\, 2017 // 11:00am-12:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nFrom organic bananas and fair-trade coffee to hybrid cars and canvas shopping bags: sustainable consumption is increasingly seen as a solution to the environmental problems brought on by climate change. Dr. Lucy Atkinson will present research that examines the ways green advertising and other persuasive environmental messages encourage consumers to adopt pro-social\, civic-minded orientations in the marketplace\, and the ethical questions that arise from these practices. \nFree and open to the UT community and general public
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/can-we-shop-our-way-to-a-better-planet-the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-green-consumption/
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SUMMARY:Rhetorics of the Good Life: Social Ontology\, Ethics\, and Communication
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Omedi Ochieng (Denison University) // May 3rd\, 2017 // 3:00pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nHow ought we to think of the meaning of “ethics” in light of global climate change\, resurgent white supremacy\, and the everyday cruelties of neoliberal capitalism? In this presentation\, I outline what I describe as a non-ideal social ontology as the background against which a robust understanding of ethics ought to be understood. In contrast to the dominant views of ethical interaction which list toward idealism\, moralism\, and parochialism\, a non-ideal social ontology allows for an expansive vision of the “ethical” as a way of life – and thereby invites wide-ranging inquiry into what constitutes good societies and good lives in the twenty-first century. Finally\, this presentation seeks to open up space on how we ought to participate in and engage with constitutive institutions such as mass and social media in an age when truth is increasingly seen as partisan\, justice is dismissed as utopian\, and freedom has been tribalized. \nFree and open to the public
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SUMMARY:Engaging News about Congress: Report from a News Engagement Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On February 23-24\, 2017\, the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin and the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon partnered to host a regional news engagement workshop focused on engagement and political coverage. The 11 digital news leaders and reporters who participated represented a variety of newsrooms based in the Pacific Northwest: Alaska Dispatch News\, Hillsboro Tribune\, KGW\, KUOW\, Montana Television Network\, The Olympian\, Oregon Public Broadcasting\, The Oregonian\, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting\, Statesman Journal\, and Willamette Week. During the two-day workshop\, participants shared their experiences and ideas for making news coverage of Congress and the issues covered by Congress more engaging. See the full report on what we found. \nImplications for Newsrooms\nThe purpose of this workshop was to convene news innovators involved in audience engagement and political reporting to share experiences about engagement and reporting on Congress. The result of the convening was\, in our mind\, a very productive series of sessions and some provocative new ideas about making Congressional coverage engaging. Over the course of 24 hours\, workshop participants provided unique insight into how they think about audience engagement and political coverage and came up with promising and creative ideas for how they can improve the relationship between the two. We are eager to see these ideas come into being and encourage you to reach out to the Center for Media Engagement if you are inspired to put any of these ideas into action. \nThe Workshop\nWhat is “Engagement”?\nWe kicked off the workshop by having participants discuss what the term “engagement” means to them and their news organizations. Several themes became clear throughout the conversation. \nWHAT COUNTS AS ENGAGEMENT AND HOW MUCH IT IS EMPHASIZED VARIES BY NEWSROOM\n\nI’d say engagement is a conversation with substance\, a conversation that brings meaning. It’s a conversation that’s mutually beneficial for the audience and the organization\, so it enhances the content\, the comments\, or the flow of back-and-forth. (Retsinas)\nThe way engagement manifests itself in my daily work is usually people calling or emailing me questions. People don’t always know what their government does\, or who the government is. So I try to point people in the right direction. And\, for better or for worse\, it’s about reading the comments and responding to legitimate questions. (Friedman)\nIf we’re doing our job well\, we’re engaging the community on every level. It’s a never-ending process of tending to the community or the audience\, whatever you’d like to call it. (Hulen)\nFor me\, I’m a little skeptical of the term “engagement\,” because it borders on marketing to readers\, figuring out what they want and giving them what they want. (Mesh)\nEngagement is not a term I’ve heard a lot in my newsroom. (Dennison)\nIt’s our job to find a way to make people care and to present the content in a way that people can understand. If we have a story that has 500 unique visitors\, but a minute and a half of engagement time\, we probably have a marketing issue. But if we have 5\,000 visitors spending 15 seconds and it’s a 40-inch story\, we know we have a writing issue. We can look at these numbers and ask if it’s a marketing issue\, if it’s a writing issue\, or if it’s a topic issue. (Miller)\n\nAN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ENGAGEMENT IS ENSURING THAT THE AUDIENCE’S INTERESTS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE NEWS\n\nSo many people are engaging now\, whether it’s watching Facebook Live or commenting or getting a copy of the newspaper or turning on the TV. But I think part of what we as news organizations need to ask ourselves is who we have in the stories\, why we have those people in the stories\, and how that affects who not only reads the story but also how they share and interact with it. I think the average reader wants to stay up to date and know what this really has to do with people’s daily lives. (Friedman)\nFor us\, it’s underlining and enhancing editorial products. For a series we did on a homeless camp in Seattle\, we brought three homeless people to the Seattle Public Library to connect with a large audience of about 400 people. Engagement is about taking the editorial product and bringing it to the public in a different way. (Reynolds)\nWe have to find what’s driving our reporting and what’s missing. Is there something we didn’t see because we’re in our own echo chamber? (Retsinas)\nWhen we profile a different town for each episode of our program “Our Town\,” we’ll have ideas of people to talk to in the town\, but we let the community tell us what the story is going to be. We host a big community meeting that we record and we get stories out of that meeting. And we let the community members lead the discussion as opposed to us going in with preconceived notions. (Rothenfluch)\nThe engagement that tends to interest me the most and what I think is most productive happens in the story-finding process. To some degree\, the only reason why we have a comment section at all is that sometimes it leads to new story ideas. What we want is to have engagement in a way that has people telling you about the homeless camp in their neighborhood that they’ve decided to help. (Mesh)\n\nENGAGEMENT CAN INVOLVE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO TALK TO EACH OTHER\, AND GETTING COMMUNITIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEMSELVES\n\nWe’re experimenting with a different kind of community engagement\, and it’s getting the community to talk to itself. There are so many different sub-communities\, and a lot of them don’t talk to each other at all. Last year\, I thought\, “How many of us know Muslims who we are comfortable talking to about religion and politics?” So\, we arranged an “Ask a Muslim” session in February and it was so successful that we did another one in July. It was a discussion based on the concept of speed-dating\, where you talked to a Muslim for 6 minutes and then another Muslim for 6 minutes. You talked to about 12 Muslims by the end. Maybe you found out something about Muslims you didn’t realize BEFORE. (Reynolds)\nI’ve seen a lot of “burst your bubble” types of initiatives in different newsrooms now that try to connect people. We are that trusted source. We can be that neutral platform to bring people together and have a conversation. To me\, that’s what engagement is all about. (Goins)\n\nALTHOUGH ALL THE PARTICIPANTS WANTED TO DO MORE WITH ENGAGEMENT\, THEY ALSO ADMITTED THAT THERE ARE CHALLENGES\n\nAs I’m a solo reporter\, if I’m going to do anything\, I have to do it myself. It’s difficult to find the time. (Dennison)\nSometimes the louder voices tend to drown out other ones\, whether it’s on social media or the newsroom\, and you tend to get distracted a little by all the noise. There is a need in our newsroom to have the resources to filter out the better things in the conversations we want to have\, but we don’t have the resources to do that. (Retsinas)\nYou have to make engagement a priority to do it well. We have to commit the resources\, whether it’s time or people\, and by doing that\, we’re not going to do these five other things that our audience may be expecting us to do. Then you have to explain\, we’re not doing this because we’re working on something that’s bigger that will pay off down the line. (Miller)\nThere is a street protest in the city of Portland every single day of the week. We choose not to cover every single one of those protests. In fact\, we choose to cover very few of them and our readership lets us know every time we don’t cover those protests. We get asked\, “Why don’t you care about the future of our democracy?” and the answer to that question is because we’re working on a very different\, larger-scale story that might impact what you choose to protest next. (Mesh)\n\nMeasuring Success\nParticipants also discussed how their newsrooms measure success when thinking about engagement. \nNEWSROOM METRICS ARE USEFUL – TO A POINT\n\nWe know that not everybody reads everything because we have the numbers to prove it. We know they’re not reading every word of the things they are reading. If we’re wasting resources on things that people aren’t consuming then we’re not engaging because the numbers tell us they’re not. Then we’re not serving our audience and we’re not giving to them what’s important to them. (Miller)\nI don’t believe in the idea that if something isn’t popular\, if there is just no way to make someone want to eat this particular vegetable\, that we should take it off the menu. Some things you do because it’s your duty to do It’s our duty to write about things that matter to the future of our city\, our state\, and our nation\, regardless of how many clicks they get. (Mesh)\nAnalysis metrics are a useful tool\, but they don’t capture everything. Maybe one person read that story and was deeply affected by it and they went out and did something about it. How do you measure that? There are ways stories impact people that we have no way of calculating. (Reynolds)\nWe are the record of what’s happening. It may not be read today\, but I feel that we have a value in being that record as a collective industry. Even if my organization doesn’t do everything\, another one will. Metrics matter and I’m very much driven by metrics in my role\, but I also think about our institutional role and that’s part of the\, ‘So what?’ value. (Retsinas)\nEveryone likes the high numbers because you want those clicks. But I think we try to create something of value. If a reader engages you and is willing\, after reading what you wrote\, to write you a letter about what they thought\, even if they hated everything you wrote\, the fact that you’re able to get them to engage you on a story\, that has a ripple effect and value. That builds relationships and gets clicks for everything else you do. (Hobbs)\n\nCovering Congress\nWe asked participants to share how they and their news organizations cover Congress. Our hope was to learn more about their experiences and challenges of covering Congress before brainstorming ways to improve coverage. We included coverage of Congress as an institution\, coverage of individual Congressional representatives\, and coverage of issues relevant to Congress as part of the discussion. \nCOVERING CONGRESS IS CHALLENGING DUE TO DISTANCE AND ACCESS\n\nWe have bureau reporters in D.C.\, but they’re also correspondents for four or five other states. How much can they know about Oregon and Salem\, and what is important to our residents? They’ve never lived in Salem and haven’t spent a ton of time in Salem. For congressional material to be meaningful\, and then actionable locally\, it’s got to be written in a voice that our audience can understand\, and that’s a big disconnect. (Miller)\nMost of the information we get comes from our Congressional members. For us to cover them\, we have to rely on them to tell us what’s going on. We don’t really have any independent way of evaluating that\, and that’s made even more difficult when they’re thousands of miles away. (Dennison)\nWe do have a full-time reporter in D.C.\, and that has its advantages. But one of the challenges is just the general disconnect and gridlock in Washington. (Hulen)\nAnother barrier is access to information. We file multiple FOIA requests every single week. More and more\, we are being forced into an adversarial role to obtain basic information – facts to support something\, documentation\, correspondence\, the things that years ago\, when I was a government reporter in another life\, it wasn’t that hard to get. Now even just getting things that aren’t even confrontational require requests and time\, which then slows the process\, making the story often less relevant. (Retsinas)\nAs a watchdog newsroom\, you’re trying to figure out how the votes of your representatives affect day-to-day life in the city and state that you’re covering. That’s fairly easy to do with local officials at City Hall or state officials in the legislature\, but it becomes harder to do on a Congressional level. (Mesh)\nI think a self-imposed barrier for us is that we think\, “NPR is in Washington\, they have full-time Congressional correspondents\, this stuff is super complicated.” We can have a Congressman on for a call\, but I don’t know if we feel as though having someone take the time to understand the processes going on in Washington is a good investment versus covering the state legislature or going down to city hall. (Reynolds)\nUser interfaces on the federal and congressional websites are so clunky that half the time I can’t figure out how a vote went down\, or what the legislation was. It’s difficult. (Friedman)\n\nIT’S IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE MATERIAL ABOUT CONGRESS INTERESTING AND APPLICABLE TO READERS\n\nI think what people want is: How does it impact them? They hear all of these national stories\, and you hear all of the decisions that are being made\, but what’s the on the ground? How does it affect my life? (Rothenfluch)\nI would say that giving people a basic understanding of the responsibilities of your Congressman versus your governor versus your legislator versus your mayor versus the courts versus your city councilor or your county council is 99% of people don’t understand. (Friedman)\nWe have access to all the wire stories on Congress\, but if we don’t cover the Alaska delegation\, and the overall impact for Alaska\, with everything from climate change to the military\, indigenous people and public land\, it isn’t as meaningful. For us\, there’s really no substitute for us doing it ourselves. (Hulen)\nPeople are really interested in characters and conflict\, and so I think you can’t tell the story of process unless you tell the story of process through people. Whether it’s the constituents at home or it’s the Congressional representatives themselves\, unless you have strong\, vivid characters\, people don’t read stories. Nobody reads books about processes\, they read books about characters. (Mesh)\n\nIdeas to Improve Engagement with Congressional Coverage\nAt the workshop\, we encouraged each participant to brainstorm ways to make reporting on Congress more engaging. Each participant was then given time\, both individually and in breakout groups\, to workshop their idea. The nine thought-provoking ideas that emerged are summarized below. \nIdea: Community Correspondents (Sarah Rothenfluch\, Oregon Public Broadcasting\, and Cole Goins\, Reveal)\n\nGet 8-12 people representative of a community; come up with methodology to select representative group (e.g. reflect state demographics) and interview people to select the right correspondents\nTreat them as community correspondents/ambassadors to the tell human effects of policy and challenges of civic engagement through their lens\nThese correspondents would check in with the newsroom regularly about what they’re feeling about what’s happening in Congress\n“Make them the faces of the real impact … tell their stories”\nAn engagement producer would help manage the group\, spark conversations\, and check in\n\nIdea: Federal Feud (Aaron Mesh\, Williamette Week)\n\nWould be an event set up like an actual game show\, held at theater or bar\nInvite representatives to guess what their constituents most want\nBefore the event\, news organization would conduct a poll to ask constituents about their priorities & political views (health care\, immigration\, )\nHeld during election cycle; incumbent challenger\n“Survey Says …” … “Are you Smarter than a Congressman”\n\nIdea: Ask Congressman to Participate in Townhall (Andy Hobbs\, The Olympian)\n\nThe newspaper would host a town hall event with their Congressional representative\nHost watch parties outside of the main cities to get more diverse voices\nThe newspaper would do a call for questions ahead of the event to ensure that it isn’t about bashing\nWould be an opportunity for reporters and editors to meet more readers\, get stories out of it\, establish credibility\, and build a relationship\nCould partner with sister paper to make it happen\n\nIdea: Road Across Wildlife Refuge (David Hulen\, Alaska Dispatch News)\n\nThe question posed to workshop participants: How to tell this specific story of a road being built in a wildlife refuge in a way that engages readers?\nIn addition to telling the story conventionally and reporting basic facts\, add drone/360 video\nIdentify stakeholders\, have them submit video or text to explain their side in their own words\nDo a live (video) event afterward allowing readers to ask questions … could then make a video about this and broadcast it on the newspaper’s website or local public television\n\nIdea: Health Care Reform Game (Ross Reynolds\, KUOW)\n\nVideo game about how aspects of health care reform will affect various outcomes (level of government responsibility à amount of taxes\, who is covered à number uninsured)\nPlay the game depending on what you want as the outcome (e.g. health care for all\, choice of health care\, )\nIncorporate stories into the game (someone talking or a written account of how it affects them personally)\nGet members of Congress to play the game\, create content based on their results\nAllow people to play & share their results on social media\nGoal: Show how factors work together on a complicated issue\n\nIdea: The Wall (Dann Miller\, Statesman Journal)\n\nAsk people to write issues or topics important to their daily lives on a public wall\nPut into database to look at topics that are consistent across geographic area\, then give these to Congressional representative\nSee the words that people use (e.g. my drive to work transportation); use this language in reporting\nReport on how Congress has voted on issue and amendments (dive deeper than just what happened with the final bill)\nDigital vs. in person (in person has benefits)\n\nIdea: Explain Why Solutions Aren’t Happening (Mike Dennison\, Montana Television Network)\n\nIdentify a problem and potential solutions\, and then report on why solutions are not happening and what it would take to make them happen\nCould increase reader engagement by telling people: here’s what you need to do to make a solution happen\nCould solicit ideas from viewers about what problem to tackle (but this would depend on newsroom)\n\nIdea: Your Q’s? The A’s (Greg Retsinas\, KGW)\n\nPeople ask questions about Congress and newsroom provides actual data as answers\nDecide what questions to respond to based on what users say (curated responses)\nStay non-partisan and focus on local issues\nSocial media conversation leads to more Q&A\n\nIdea: Improved Transparency (Gordon Friedman\, The Oregonian)\n\nIn a story\, have a side bar with phone numbers and email addresses of elected officials referenced (which can be difficult for readers to find all in one place)\nInclude footnotes to sources\nLabel the story as news / analysis / opinion / etc.\n\nYou can view the full report to see details about each participant.
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