Dr. Robert Jensen (The University of Texas at Austin) // January 31st, 2017 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 The routine assertion that mainstream journalism outlets are disproportionately staffed by liberals, producing a liberal bias in mainstream news, misses the more deeply embedded conservative nature of corporate commercial journalism. In this talk, […]
Dr. Mary Bock (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 16th, 2017 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 Journalistic ethics are no longer just for journalists. The digital media environment has flattened the information playing field, giving long-standing news institutions the same access to an audience as extremist propaganda, citizen […]
Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // March 21st, 2017 // 3:00pm-4:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 There has been an increasing legislative and academic dialogue over the growing online plague of revenge porn, or the posting of nude images without a depicted subject’s consent. Most of the […]
Dr. Clifford Christians (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) // April 4th, 2017 // 3:00pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 In this research talk, Clifford Christians explores how media ethics must change to meet the demands of new communication technologies. Today’s information era, with upheavals across the globe, requires a new theory […]
Dr. Patrick Lee Plaisance (Colorado State University) // April 10th, 2017 // 1:30pm-3:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 Moral psychology theories and methodologies offer exciting opportunities for work that advances media ethics research in new ways. From brain scans to ‘life story’ interviews to survey data, these opportunities are being explored with […]
The Center for Media Engagement with the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon partnered to host a regional news engagement workshop focused on engagement and political coverage.
Dr. Omedi Ochieng (Denison University) // May 3rd, 2017 // 3:00pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 How 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 […]
Dr. Lucy Atkinson (The University of Texas at Austin) // September 21st, 2017 // 11:00am-12:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 From 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 […]
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 In 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 […]
Dr. Robert Lewis (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 19th, 2017 // 11:30am-12:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 Most 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 […]
