IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

At last year's conference Virginia Nightingale, chair of IAMCR's Audience Section, undertook to coordinate the preparation of a draft proposal on Ethical Guidelines for Media Practice, Education and Research. Her idea is to develop some guidelines for ethical practice to be put to IAMCR's International Council for discussion. In order to broaden the discussion she is opening this topic for discussion on IAMCR's Facebook page.

In her opening contribution to the discussion Virginia wrote: "In general we are looking to organise the guidelines under 4 headings: Personal Ethics; Work Ethics; Ethics in Research practice; Ethics in Teaching practice. The aim is to allow IAMCR to have an 'ethics agenda' without being proscriptive ...i.e. we're not aiming to tell people what to do and what not to do, but to generate some guidelines that facilitate discussion and debate in contemporary academic and professional practice. So please...the topic is open...what are your views?"

The discussion is open for anyone to read, but in order to contribute you will need to have an account on Facebook.