Lecture features Internet ethics

Flathead Valley Community College’s inaugural President’s Lecture Series continues  at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 with Deni Elliott presenting “Internet Ethics for Everybody.”

Elliott holds the Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy at the University of South Florida.

This free public event will be in the large community meeting room inside the Arts and Technology Building on the Kalispell campus.

During her presentation, Elliott will address how news has changed from a one-way transmission model from a handful of well-established and wealthy news organizations to an interactive model. Today, anyone with access to the Internet may provide information and opinion.

Elliott will shed light on the lack of convention and regulation in how one provides and uses messages. In her presentation, she discusses how 20th century professional codes of journalism ethics fail to meet the realities of Internet-based mass communication, prompting the need for “Internet Ethics for Everybody” and guidelines for ethical online communication.

Elliott serves as professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, director of graduate studies and campus omsbudsman at the University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg. She is a member of the university’s system-wide Social and Behavioral Sciences Committee.

A former Mansfield Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs, Elliott was a founding director of the Practical Ethics Center at The University of Montana and the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College. She has written more than 190 books, articles and book chapters on the disciplines of practical ethics for the scholarly, trade and lay press.

Elliott earned an interdisciplinary doctorate in philosophy of education from Harvard University, a masters in philosophy from Wayne State University and a bachelors in Communications from the University of Maryland.

For more information, call 756-3668.