Ethics of Society & Ethics of Communication Working Group

This Working Group is concerned with ethical and deontological problems and challenges of the communicators and the communication media. We want to take into consideration how values help to improve the practice of communication in three main areas: information, entertainment and persuasion. We also want to point out the importance of critical reception.

Chair: Elvira García (Department of Communication and Journalism. CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Spain) [Contact]
Vice-chair: María Teresa Nicolás (School of Communication. Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) [Contact]
Vice-chair: Kanchan K. Malik (University of Hyderabad, India) [Contact]


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It focuses particularly on the crisis of the relationship between ethics and politics; political developments in different areas of the world; the actors in the different modalities of political communication; the sources of political information and their risks from an ethical point of view; political news and public relations; and the roles played by propaganda and disinformation in political news.


IAMCR 2014: Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group - CfP - Deadline 10 February

IAMCR 2014 - Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group - Call for papers

Theme: “Region as Frame: Politics, presence, practice”

The Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions for the 2014 IAMCR to be held at Hyderabad, India, from July 15 to 19, 2014.

IAMCR 2013 - Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group - Call for Proposals

altThe Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group invites submissions for the 2013 conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) to be held at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland from 25-29 June, 2013. The overall conference theme is "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders".

IAMCR 2012 - Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group of the IAMCR invites submissions of abstracts for papers for the next annual IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. The conference will seek to explore the varied modalities of communication, of media flows and of associated identities, images and perceptions of the participants.

Stockholm 2008 - 'Ethics of Society - Ethics of Communication' Working Group Call for Papers

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

For the Swedish Conference of 2008, the proposal of this Working Group
is to deal on  the subject “Ethics and Deontology of Public Relations”.
The main reason is because Public Relations have become a fundamental
instrument of communication, which up to now has not received the
appropriated attention from the communication researchers. It is a
contrasting  fact, because in practice they have  a very important role
in all areas of social activities

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