[Air-l] CFP: Blogging and Online Journalism Student Conference

[Michael Zimmer]

Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics

April 7 & 8, 2006

The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics at Ohio University  
and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism announce "Blogging and  
Online Journalism."

BOJ will bring together a small group of successful, highly motivated  
students with some of the leading figures in journalism and media  
ethics for an intimate, in-depth two-day exploration of one of the  
most interesting and dynamic areas in applied ethics today. After a  
daily keynote address on a topic of general interest, participants  
will break up into workgroups. These workshops will feature  
presentations by invited scholars and by student participants, with  
discussion and critique of the presentations.

Presentations and workshop summaries will be published on the  
Institute website.

Participation is limited to 25. Students interested in participating  
should send contact information and a brief paper on one of the  
workshop topics to ethics at ohio.edu by January 20, 2006. Participants  
will be selected on the basis of the paper they submit. Please visit  
the "STUDENT CONFERENCE" section of ohio.edu/ethics for submission  
requirements.

Travel grants (travel, room, and board) are available for a limited  
number of participants. Students interested in applying for travel  
support should indicate this in their application.

Keynote speakers:

Dan Gillmore (author of "We, the Media")
Clifford Christians (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain)

Workshop topics and leaders:

Friday, April 7
Martin Kuhn (U North Carolina): Blogging Ethics
Fernanda Viegas (MIT MediaLab): Privacy and Accountability in Blogging
Jan Boyles (U West Virginia): Rhetoric of Political Bloggers
Sandeep Junnarker (Columbia University): Blogging investigative  
reporting: The Videoblog

Saturday, April 8th
Mark Deuze (Indiana University): Typology of Online Journalism
Bob Benz (Scripps Company): Reality Constraints of Online Journalism
Bernhard Debatin (Ohio University): Online Journalism Ethics

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Kathleen Evans-Romaine
Assistant Director
Ohio U. Inst. for Applied and Professional Ethics www.ohiou.edu/ethics
office:  740 593 9802
cell:    740 590 2410