CRASSH

The Ethics of Media: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Imperatives

Friday, 4 April 2008 to Saturday, 5 April 2008
Location: CRASSH

Programme

Location : CRASSH Date : 4-5 April 2008

Friday 4 April
9.15 - 9.45	Registration
9.45 - 10.00	Welcome and Introduction
10.00 - 11.00	Opening Talk Does Freedom Trump All Other Media Norms? Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, University of Cambridge and President of the British Academy
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00	Panel 1 Chair: Clare Chambers (Dept of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) Georgina Born (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge) The Normative, Institutional Ethics, and Practical Ethics: for an Anthropological Ethics of Media Sabina Lovibond (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford) ‘Ethical Living’ in the Media and in Philosophy Nick Couldry (Dept of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London) Communicative Virtue and the Construction of a Global Media Ethics
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Panel 2 Chair: Nick Couldry Daniel Dayan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Media Ethics and the Status of Visibility Roy Brand (Sarah Lawrence College, New York State) Amit Pinchevski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Doubleface: Representation in an Ethical Register Mirca Madianou (Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge) Politics of disrespect and ethics of care: towards a normative framework of mediated multiclturalism
15.30 - 16.00	Tea Break
16.00 - 17.30	Panel 3 Chair: Mirca Madianou Phil Parvin (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) Should the Media Play a Role in Reversing Political Disengagement among British Citizens? David Edmonds (BBC) Crying at Mandela’s Funeral
17.30	Close

Saturday 5 April
9.30 - 11.00	Panel 4 Chair: Joanna Zylinska Nafsika Athanassoulis (Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, UK) Some Vices of Reality TV Programming Lilie Chouliaraki (Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics) Branding Human suffering: Civil Virtue and Utilitarian Ethics Peter Lunt (Dept of Sociology, Brunel University) Transformation, Character and Virtue in Mediated Social Interaction
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00	Panel 5 Chair: Georgina Born Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania) Journalistic Ethics from the Bottom Up Joanna Zylinska (Dept of Media and communications, Goldsmiths, University of London) The Ethos of Good Life in Online Media, or, what if Foucault had had a Blog? Don Slater (Dept of Sociology, London School of Economics) Network ethics: achieving 'ethical maturity' in North-South communications
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Closing Remarks John Durham Peters (F Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor Media History and Social Theory, University of Iowa) Final Discussion
15.30	Close
	This conference has been organized with support from Goldsmiths, University of London, the Department of Sociology and CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.