Hi all, I'm about to interviewed for a newspaper story (Pittsburgh) on blogging and blogs - of the many things I know so little about, those would be right up there... (the vagaries of reporting, I suppose...) While I have a few meager thoughts on the phenomena, including a shred of ethical reflection - would the air community like to throw any important thoughts (and references) my way? I'll happily credit anyone I can cite - and/or refer the reporter to the _real_ experts out there in AoIR-land. Let me know - and thanks, -- cX (the unknown charlie, who followed the original Charlie onto the executive committee - tee-hee) Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
Charles, That's a big chunk. If you are looking to pass on the bare basics, I highly recommend the short pamphlet from Reporters Without Borders: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 Beyond this, a number of folks have tried to make explicit an ethics of blogging, particularly related to maintaining the privacy of others. Some have borrowed from the SPJ's code: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php Though similar codes could be taken, e.g., from the CPSR's code. There have been a number of examples of ethical (and legal) concerns revolving around blogging practices. A small sampling might include: 1. Spam blogs (aka "splogs") and businesses setting up blogs that are supposedly by disinterested individuals. 2. Issues of privacy borders: e.g., the "nanny diaries" issue that appeared in the NYT and on a nanny's blog: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/fashion/sundaystyles/17LOVE.html?ex=127925... 3. Questions (again recapped from journalism) about whether bloggers should be paid, and whether they should disclose payments. Some of this arose around bloggers for the Dean campaign, and it has shown up elsewhere. A number of bloggers post their own policies. 4. Issues regarding editorial policies. E.g., the recent furor over Bitch, Ph.D. banning a discussant. See: http://www.erinoconnor.org/archives/2005/11/of_blogs_commen.html This is just for starters :). Alex On 11/29/05, Charles Ess <cmess@drury.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to interviewed for a newspaper story (Pittsburgh) on blogging and blogs - of the many things I know so little about, those would be right up there... (the vagaries of reporting, I suppose...)
While I have a few meager thoughts on the phenomena, including a shred of ethical reflection - would the air community like to throw any important thoughts (and references) my way? I'll happily credit anyone I can cite - and/or refer the reporter to the _real_ experts out there in AoIR-land.
Let me know - and thanks, -- cX (the unknown charlie, who followed the original Charlie onto the executive committee - tee-hee)
Charles Ess
Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org
Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php
Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
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Hello internet researchers, for those of you who read German this could be interesting: we have just published a new special issue of our Online Magazine "kommunikation@gesellschaft" about weblogs. kommunikation@gesellschaft is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on sociology, cultural science and communication research. If you are interested, please have a look at our website: www.kommunikation-gesellschaft.de Christian Contents: Sonderausgabe: Erkundungen des Bloggens. Sozialwissenschaftliche Ansätze und Perspektiven der Weblogforschung Jan Schmidt (Bamberg); Klaus Schönberger (Hamburg & Wien), Christian Stegbauer (Frankfurt a.M.), Erkundungen von Weblog-Nutzungen. Anmerkungen zum Stand der Forschung abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B4_Schmidt_Schoenberger_Stegbauer_a.html>oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B4_Schmidt_Schoenberger_Stegbauer.pdf>) Christopher Coenen (Berlin) Weblogs als Mittel der Kommunikation zwischen Politik und Bürgern -Neue Chancen für E-Demokratie? abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B5_2005_Coenen_a.html>oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B5_2005_Coenen.pdf>) Julia Franz ("Diskursive Formationen" http://blog.twoday.net) Praktiken des Bloggens im Spannungsfeld von Demokratie und Kontrolle abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B6_2005_Franz_a.html> oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B6_2005_Franz.pdf>) Rasco Perschke und Maren Lübcke (Hamburg-Harburg) Zukunft Weblog?! - Lesen, Schreiben und die Materialität der Kommunikation. Anmerkungen zu einem neuen Typus der Online-Kommunikation aus kommunikationstheoretischer Sicht. abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B7_2005_Perschke_Luebke_a.html> oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B7_2005_Perschke_Luebke.pdf>) Ingrid Francisca Reichmayr (Wien) Weblogs von Jugendlichen als Bühnen des Identitätsmanagements. Eine explorative Untersuchung. abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B8_2005_Reichmayr_a.html> oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B8_2005_Reichmayr.pdf>) Forschungsnotiz: Steffen Albrecht, Maren Lübcke, Rasco Perschke und Marco Schmitt (Hamburg) "Hier entsteht eine neue Internetpräsenz" - Weblogs im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005 abstract <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/F1_2005_Albrecht_Luebcke_Perschke_Schmitt_a.html> oder Beitrag (pdf <http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/F1_2005_Albrecht_Luebcke_Perschke_Schmitt.pdf>) -- ************************************************* PD Dr. Christian Stegbauer Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Institut für Gesellschafts- und Politikanalyse 60054 Frankfurt e-mail: stegbauer@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Magazin: kommunikation@gesellschaft Soziologie*telematik*kulturwissenschaft www.kommunikation-gesellschaft.de *************************************************
Charles, First of all, be aware that there is no love affair between most print publications and the blogosphere...I certainly wouldn't go into an interview with any expectation of a warm welcome for bloggers. Second, I'd be happy to share a list of higher education folks who blog regularly so you might get a sampling of what is going on. Paul:) Charles Ess wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to interviewed for a newspaper story (Pittsburgh) on blogging and blogs - of the many things I know so little about, those would be right up there... (the vagaries of reporting, I suppose...)
While I have a few meager thoughts on the phenomena, including a shred of ethical reflection - would the air community like to throw any important thoughts (and references) my way? I'll happily credit anyone I can cite - and/or refer the reporter to the _real_ experts out there in AoIR-land.
Let me know - and thanks, -- cX (the unknown charlie, who followed the original Charlie onto the executive committee - tee-hee)
Charles Ess
Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org
Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php
Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
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Laura Gurak (U-Minn) into the blogosphere may be in print now, here's the online ref. It's aim (as I understand it) is to align blogging as a 'proper' academic activity. Gurak, L., S. Atonijevic, et al. (2004). "Into the blogosphere [online] Available at:. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, Ph.D. submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html
Its online - if this is what you meant http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
Laura Gurak (U-Minn) into the blogosphere may be in print now, here's the online ref.
It's aim (as I understand it) is to align blogging as a 'proper' academic activity.
Gurak, L., S. Atonijevic, et al. (2004). "Into the blogosphere [online] Available at:. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/.
Cheers, Denise
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My main interest in this area is that I am a contributor to a joint academic blog called TerraNova. From persona experience it is certainly interesting that impact that this blog has on academic debate, industry debate and my own personal standing in each. I don't particularly follow the academic work on blogging but I think the area that I would follow if I did is the whole one about the way that blogging challenges certain ideas about the legitimacy of media. A specific example is the recent debate in the US about what rights the press have in virtue of them being 'the press' and how (at least from news coverage) it seems to be that established interest in both the press and law making are portrayed as wanting to structure affordances in such a way that they do not extend to bloggers. In personal experience this comes down to little things like - do I get a (free) press pass to an event or not. Generally speaking in the computer games world I have no problem as I would suggest that our blog is seen a more legitimate than much of the online and print culture. Other than the normative spins on: what is that counts as legitmate and what does legitimate count for, ares that strike me as ethically interesting are those to do with marginalised voices, whistle blowing, public vs private - especially when it comes to corporate affairs etc. Ren On 29/11/05 18:41, "Charles Ess" <cmess@drury.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to interviewed for a newspaper story (Pittsburgh) on blogging and blogs - of the many things I know so little about, those would be right up there... (the vagaries of reporting, I suppose...)
While I have a few meager thoughts on the phenomena, including a shred of ethical reflection - would the air community like to throw any important thoughts (and references) my way? I'll happily credit anyone I can cite - and/or refer the reporter to the _real_ experts out there in AoIR-land.
Let me know - and thanks, -- cX (the unknown charlie, who followed the original Charlie onto the executive committee - tee-hee)
Charles Ess
Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org
Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php
Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
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Alex Halavais -
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Dr. Christian Stegbauer -
Paul Chenoweth -
Radhika Gajjala -
Ren Reynolds