2006 CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Fernanda Viégas, April 7 panelist
Fernanda B. Viégas has just finished her PhD at the MIT Media Lab and joined IBM Research. Her research focuses on the visualization of the traces people leave as they interact online. Some of her projects explore email archives, newsgroup conversations, and the editing history of wiki pages. She is the creat…
2006 CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Martin Kuhn, April 7 panelist
Martin Kuhn is completing his Ph.D. at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and his primary research areas are media law and history. Aside from his exploratory study of blog ethics, he has written about constitutional issues arising from the Can-Spam…
2006 CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Special Guest Presenter: Robert Bateman
Robert Bateman is a professional soldier, an historian and author. He is both Airborne and Ranger qualified, and has served as an Infantry officer around the world over the course of his career. He has also served as a “Military Fellow” at the Center for Strategic and International Studie…
April 8, 4:15 – 6:15pm
Scripps 107
Moderator: Bob Benz
This workshop addresses ethical concerns in online media other than blogging (or not exclusive to blogging).
Student papers to be presented and discussed in the workshop are:
It’s About What Your School Can Do for You, Susanne Goericke, University of Kansas
Abstract pending
Sketches of a Sociological Inquiry i…
April 8, 9-11am
Scripps 107
This workshop addresses practical considerations associated with ethical blogging.
Moderator: Sandeep Junnarker
Branding Credibility: Blogging Ethics from the Consumers’ Perspective, Steve Siff, Ohio University
Abstract pending
Can Blogging be More than Punditry and Emotional Rhetoric? Ethical Blogging Through Authenticity, Kare…
April 7, 4:15 – 6:15pm
Scripps 107
This workshop addresses ethical issues arising from the practice of blogging. The focus here is more theoretical than applied.
Moderator: Mark Deuze
Student papers to be presented and discussed in the workshop are:
A Model of Creditability Development in Political Blogs, Colin Lingle, University of Colorado
Abstract not available
Blo…
April 8, 2 – 4pm
Anderson Auditorium, Scripps Hall
Online Journalism has left its infancy and has become an indispensable part of the media system, and it is well-paid, too. At the same time, it has sort of changed the rules of the game: Conventional criteria of newsworthiness are getting expanded; the immediacy of the Internet has replaced the concept of strict deadlines wi…
April 7, 2 – 4pm
Anderson Auditorium, Scripps Hall
Blogging is often celebrated as a form of social networking and community building that allows for a grass-roots type of political and journalistic activity. However, while journalism is supposed to be objective and unbiased, the whole point of blogging is to combine facts with pointed opinion and tartly written comment…
Friday, April 7:
In April 2006 the Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism will host Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics (BOJ).
BOJ will provide an opportunity for a small group of select students to join forces with leading figures in journalism and media ethics for an intimate, in-depth explorat…