Getting past the future: journalism ethics, innovation, and a call for ‘flexible first’

Journalists have long used ethical principles to define who they are as well as how they should behave. Ethics become a boundary marker to distinguish journalists from non-journalists, and familiar practices from unknown ones. As a result, journalists initially tend to frame a new approach as posing a terrible challenge to normative principles – that is, as something that must be resisted on moral grounds. Such resistance can easily become an impediment to thinking productively about how best to respond to innovation. This essay proposes that journalists should instead confront change by asking how they can adapt to – and adapt along with – the new thing, while at the same time preserving their core values

'Hidden treasures, hidden voices' : an ethnographic study of movement and dance in psychosocial work with war-affected refugee children and adults (Serbia 2001-2002)

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Assessing the impact on the student experience of embedding information resources in the Guided Learner Journey at the University of Hertfordshire

This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in Ariadne after peer review. The final, published version is available online via: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue78/singer-and-bilsonHelen Singer and Jane Bilson explain how the University of Hertfordshire followed ‘Guided Learner Journey’ principles by embedding resources in their VLE using the Talis Aspire reading list system and their assessment of how this has affected the student experience at the University.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Moving Family Dispute Resolution from the Court System to the Community

Over the past three decades, there has been a significant shift in the way the legal system approaches and resolves family disputes. Mediation, collaboration, and other non-adversarial processes have replaced a traditional, law-oriented adversarial regime. Until recently, however, reformers have focused largely on the court system as the setting for innovations in family dispute resolution. But our research suggests that courts may not be the best places for families to resolve disputes, particularly disputes involving children. Moreover, attempting to turn family courts into multi-door dispute resolution centers may detract from their essential role as adjudicators of last resort and forums for the creation and enforcement of important social norms. In this Essay, and in our recent book, Divorced From Reality: Rethinking Family Dispute Resolution, we suggest that family law reformers should rethink their continuing reliance on courts and consider moving some of the problem-solving processes and services that characterize today’s family justice system out of the courts and into the community

Implications of Technological Change for Journalists' Tasks and Skills

The authors explore how technology has altered the work processes and activities in news organizations. They show how story ideageneration, research, sourcing, processing, packaging, and repurposinghave changed and created needs for news skills and capabilities

Sem medo do futuro: ética do jornalismo, inovação e um apelo à flexibilidade

Os jornalistas desde sempre usaram os princípios éticos tanto para definir o que são como para indicar como devem actuar. A ética tornou-se um marco fronteiriço para distinguir jornalistas de não-jornalistas, e práticas familiares de práticas desconhecidas. Em resultado disso, os jornalistas tendem, num primeiro momento, a encarar qualquer nova abordagem ao campo da informação como uma ameaça aos princípios normativos por que se regem – ou seja, algo a que se deve resistir com base em razões morais. Tal resistência transforma-se facilmente num impedimento para pensar de modo produtivo sobre os modos como se pode responder positivamente à inovação. Este ensaio propõe que os jornalistas encarem a mudança perguntando como podem adaptar-se às novas realidades, ao mesmo tempo que preservam os seus valores essenciais