MEDIA ETHICS DIVISION CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS

Are you an idea person? 

We hope that you will share your ideas for panels for the 2010 AEJMC Annual Convention in Denver. 

MED officers are looking for panel proposals or recommendations. Now is the time to forward your ideas for Research (invited), Teaching and/or PF&R sessions; please send a one-page proposal to MED’s Programming Chair, Shannon Bowen, at sbowen@syr.edu as soon as possible, but by Friday, October 2. We understand that’s soon, but program schedules necessitate a quick turnaround. All that is needed at this point is just need a quick summary of your idea(s).

Keep in mind that partnering with other divisions/groups on panel sponsorships is the best way for us to expand our offerings and increase our presence at the convention.

The proposal should be a 1 page Word document containing the following:

  1. Panel organizer contact: (Your name/email)
  2. Panel Title
  3. Panel Type (specify one): Research; PF&R; or Teaching
  4. Possible Co-sponsors: (please list the Division names). Here’s the list:             http://www.aejmc.org/_about/divisions/index.php
  5. Summary of Session: (one paragraph, please)
  6. Possible Panelists & Specialty: (type of person or name; please specify if confirmed)
  7. Estimated Speaker Costs (if any)

Proposal submissions will be presented for executive board feedback. Please keep in mind that mini-plenary type panel must be sponsored by 4 divisions or interest groups. Most submissions are best as a dual-sponsored panel (any division co-sponsoring a panel will want to have a seat or two on the panel, a respondent, etc).

Thanks for your input and provocative ideas! The Oct. 2 deadline is fast approaching…. Thanks!

Questions should be addressed to the Programmig Chair: Shannon A. Bowen at sbowen@syr.edu or office phone 315-443-5331.


CALL FOR PAPERS: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Nineteenth Annual Meeting
March 4-7, 2010
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel

The Association invites submissions for its Nineteenth Annual Meeting.  Submissions are invited on ethical issues in all fields (e.g., public administration, law, the environment, accounting, engineering, computer science, research ethics, business, medicine, health care, journalism, higher education) and on issues that cut across professions. Special consideration will be given to topics that deal with ethical issues which cut across at least two disciplines or professions and are co-authored by persons from different disciplines.  Teaching demonstrations, discussion of moral education, and presentations on ethics curriculum development are welcome. You do not need to be a member of the Association to make a submission.

Submissions will be considered in the following categories: 1) Individual Formal Papers; 2) Panels including Formal Papers; 3) Panels for Round Table Discussions; 4) Pedagogical Demonstrations for Teaching Ethics; 5) Case Study Presentation and Discussion, 6) Author Meets the Critics; 7)Lunch with an Author. You may submit materials in more than one category, but normally only one submission will be accepted for the program for all except the Author Meets the Critics and Lunch With an Author sessions.

Special Paper Competitions for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting

1. Competition for the Best Formal Paper by a Young Faculty Member - $500 prize The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the best paper submitted for next year's Annual Meeting by a Young Faculty member (A young faculty member is defined as one who has received a Ph.D. within the last 8 years.) Up to three awards may be made in this category.

2. Competition for Best Formal Paper by a Graduate Student - $500 prize The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the best paper submitted by a graduate student for next year's Annual Meeting.

(The registration fee will be paid for all graduate students whose individual paper has been reviewed and accepted for the Annual Meeting.)

A select number of submissions in the above competitions will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Applied Ethics.

3. Competition for Best Formal Paper on Pre-college Ethics - $1,000 prize The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is pleased to announce that, with support of the Squire Family Foundation, we will sponsor a competition at the next Annual Meeting to advance the work of those interested in pre-college ethics.

4. Undergraduate Formal Paper Competition Undergraduate students are invited to submit papers on any topic in practical and professional ethics. The Annual Meeting registration fee will be paid for those students whose papers have been accepted.

The Submission Postmark Deadlines are:

Formal Papers, Panels, Pedagogical Demonstrations, Case Study Presentation and Discussion Submission Deadline is: October 16, 2009

Lunch With an Author Submission Deadline is October 9, 2009

Undergraduate Paper Submission Deadline is October 30, 2009

For complete details see http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/annualmeeting.html



CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: Media Ethics 2000 Colloquium

Who Can and Should Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?

Media Ethics 2000 Colloquium, founded by Brigham Young University, is preparing for its 10th colloquium, which will take place in April, 2010, in St. Louis.  The 2010 colloquium, Who Can and Should Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?, provides a venue for mass media scholarship examining a variety of accountability issues and tools ranging from journalism reviews to news councils to ombudsmen to public/civic journalism to media critics to ethics codes, etc. 

Colloquium submissions should be normative, focusing on ethics and theory as opposed to media criticism or individual case studies. 

Potential colloquium fellows are invited to submit proposals of no more than 1,000 words.  As many as nine team proposals will be selected by the Colloquium Steering Committee.  Proposals can be submitted either by an individual scholar or by a pair of scholars.  Should a proposal submitted by an individual be accepted, the colloquium steering committee will help determine another appropriate scholar to work with the person submitting the proposal.  In past colloquia, fellows pairings have embraced diversity, including, for instance, having one scholar in a team being more “seasoned” and the other scholar being new to media ethics, or having one scholar being an academician with the other contributor being from the media or another profession (law, for example), having team members from two different disciplines, or having a pair of individuals from different nations or cultures. 

The proposal deadline is Nov. 1, 2009.  Proposals should be submitted electronically to William A. Babcock at wbabcock49@gmail.com.  Acceptance notices will be sent out in November.

Final papers of no more than 8,000 words (including references and footnotes) are due no later than March, 2010. The colloquium will pay travel, room and board expenses for all fellows.  The Journal of Mass Media Ethics will have the right of first refusal for all presented colloquium papers, and upon publication each author will receive a $500 honorarium. 

This year’s Colloquium is co-sponsored by Southern Illinois University Carbondale.