Gawker Media’s Nick Denton has proffered his solution to the problem of toxic and off-topic comments. His sites are planning to post some stories that allow only a hand-picked, pre-approved group of people to comment on them. Do you think this is the way to create online-commenting civility? >>>
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David Carr had an excellent report in the March 11 New York Times about two efforts (introduced at last week’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin) to bring ethical standards to bear in the wild, woolly and fast-growing realm of ag…
The quality of our life depends, in large part, on our health, which depends in part on our security, which depends in part on our ability to obtain a measure of privacy. That’s why privacy deserves a place in any sort of ethical framework for Inte…
The team that’s developing a new college at the University of Colorado Boulder, tentatively named ICJMT (for Information, Communication, Journalism, Media, & Technology), is putting on a digital-media symposium this week: “Content & Context of Digital Culture.” Check out videos of event speakers. >>>
New digital tools not only are useful to working journalists, but they’re finding value in the classroom. In the Newsgathering 2 internship course at the University of Colorado Boulder, instructors used Google+ Hangouts to conduct a classroom Q and A session with two remote guests. The experience was a successful one. >>>
Opinion: Democracy doesn’t demand unfettered online comments
“I think it’s best to dispense with this notion of ‘democracy’ in the context of comments and the Internet as a whole, because it is, in many ways, a straw man,” says our online-comments researcher. Do you agree? >>>