PRECONFERENCE #5

Sponsored by the ICA Philosophy of Communication Division. Cosponsored by the ICA Journalism Studies and Mass Communication Divisions, and by New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication and the Council for Media and Culture

Title: Media Ethics

Time: Thursday, May 21, 8:30 – 17:00

Limit: 80 persons

Cost: $60.00USD ICA Members (Lunch is on your own)

The preconference will bring together communication scholars, media theorists, journalists, and practitioners to collectively consider the question of media ethics. Ethics has recently emerged as a central concern in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in various subsets of media and communication studies. An increasing number of scholars are now involved in issues directly pertaining to the relation of media and ethics while drawing on various philosophical traditions. While ethical issues have accompanied the development of media studies from its inception and, agreement on a broad conceptual framework for media ethics is still to be established and a broad dialogue between theoretical perspectives on ethics and contemporary media practitioners yet to be achieved. The preconference will provide a platform for such an attempt.

8:30-9:00 Breakfast and registration

9:00-10:30 Opening plenary: Perspectives on Media Ethics: Ronald Arnett, Lilie Chouliaraki, Clifford Christians

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 SESSION 1: Media and Morality
• ‘Local Cosmopolitanism’: Media Ethics for Diasporic Youth – Ingrid Volkmer & Esther Chin
• Political Discourse Cultures and Transcultural Media Ethics: Media and Morality in European Political Communication – Andreas Hepp, Michael Brüggemann, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Swantje Lingenberg & Johanna Möller
• The New Visibility of Body Horror on the Internet: Ethical Stakes and Implications – Kari Andén Papadopoulos
• Children Watching Children: How Filipino Children Represent and Receive News Images of Suffering – Jonathan Corpus Ong

10:45-12:00 SESSION 2: Accountability
• Distinct Responsibilities: Why the Responsibility of Media and Journalism Isn’t the Same – Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen
• Metacoverage as an Accountability System?  A Framing Model of Election News – Paul D’Angelo & Frank Esser
• Covering the Duke Lacrosse Case: Professional Perspectives on Journalism Ethics – Glen Feighery
• Arguing for Accountability: Toward a Cross-Cultural Discourse Ethics – Steven F. Rafferty

12:00-13:15 SESSION 3: Audience Involvement and Participation
• Structural and Individual Horizons in Politics of Pity: Mediatised Advocacy for Asylum Seekers – Karina Horsti
• Politics of Disrespect, Ethics of Care: Towards a Normative Framework of Mediated Multiculturalism? – Mirca Madianou
• Emotional Ethics: Media Ethics Through the Lens of Critical Emotion Studies – Brent Malin
• Media Ethics as Field Strategies: What Do Audiences Do With Ethics? – Tim Markham

12:00-13:15 SESSION 4: Objectivity, Truth, Rationality
• A Definition of Journalistic Objectivity as a Performance – Sandrine Boudana
• Narrative Virtue in Times of Moral Uncertainty –  Nick Couldry
• Objectivity and Truth: Anatomy of an  Endless Misunderstanding – Juan Ramón Muńoz-Tores
• Rituals of Rationality? Lessons from the Mohammed Cartoons Affair – Risto Kunelius

13:15-14:15 Lunch Break

14:15-15:40  SESSION 5: Media, Event, Otherness
• Badiou’s Ethics and the Documentary Enterprise – Garnet Butchart
• Television and the Cognitive Distance From the Poor: Emmanuel Levinas’ Humanism of the Other: Reduction of the Self to the Other  –Jae-Hong  Kim
• Media Witnessing and Shared Humanity – Amit Pinchevski & Paul Frosh
• The Virtue (-Based) Ethics of Interruption – Piotr Szpunar

14:15-15:40 SESSION 6: Emerging Trends in Journalistic Ethics
•  “Everyone’s A Journalist” – Or Are They? Exploring the Ethics of Communicative Practices by Citizen Media – Anne-Katrin Arnold& Lokman Tsui
• Journalism Ethics in Perspective: Desirability and Feasibility of a Separate Code of Conduct for Online Journalism – Christel van de Burgt, Klaus Schönbach and Richard van der Wurff
• Talking to/About Itself: Ethics and News Media Self-Coverage – Stephanie Craft
• The Possible Self-Defeating Quality of the Idea(l) of “The Average Citizen” – Gitte Meyer

15:30-16:15 SESSION 7: Market, Law, Politics
• Hatim El-Hibri – Ethics, Dangerous Media, and the Case of Fitna
• Tina Tomazic – Covert Advertising in the Context of Media Ethics
• Tai-li Wang – Challenge the Myth of Product Placements: The Impacts of Product Placements on News Credibility in TV News Programs
• Bruce A. Williams & Michael X. Delli Carpini – Real Ethical Concerns And Fake News: The Challenge of the New Media Environment

15:30-16:15 SESSION 8: Cosmopolitanism and the Global
• Universal Ethics: New Approaches, New Principles – Clifford G. Christians & Stephen J. A. Ward
• Discourse Ethics and Transcultural Deliberations Analytical Dimensions of “Pathologies of Communication” – Thomas Haeussler
• Global or “Glocal” Media Ethics? – Shakuntala Rao & Herman Wasserman
• Journalism for a World of Strangers: A Cosmopolitan Approach - Wendy N. Wyatt

16:45-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Closing Plenary: Daniel Dayan

Preconference Organizers:
Amit Pinchevski, Philosophy of Communication
Ingrid Volkmer, Chair, Philosophy of Communication
Nick Couldry, Program Chair, Philosophy of Communication
Frank Esser, Program Chair, Journalism Studies
Dave Roskos-Ewoldsen, Program Chair, Mass Communication