Dr. Minette E. Drumwright (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 13th, 2016 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.102 How do advertising practitioners in other cultures confront ethical issues? Building on research conducted with Sara Kamal, Professor Drumwright employs Bourdieu’s theory of practice to examine how the perceptions, practices, and […]
Dr. Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor University) // November 2nd, 2016 // 1:00pm-2:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 From their announcement speeches to the final debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have rhetorically constructed portraits of American democracy in their campaign rhetoric. What do those portraits look like? How are they constructed? What assumptions […]
November 11th, 2016 // 11:00am-4:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 2.106 There’s no question that social media has forever changed the way news organizations connect with their audiences. But has that change helped or harmed news organizations? And what’s in it for social media companies to get involved with news organizations, such as […]
CME hosted a Social Media Summit to discuss the experiences, benefits, and challenges of using social media.
Dr. Christopher Queen (Harvard University) // January 24th, 2017 // 1:00pm-2:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 Following the 2013 release of Navayana’s annotated critical edition of B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste with an introductory essay by Arundhati Roy, Dalit (ex-Untouchable) activists angrily charged that Roy and the publisher were unqualified to write […]
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 […]
