Commonalities

February 15, 2012 – Aim & Audience: The Matter of Style Today
Noon, IC Level 4, LSC

Join Dr. Michael Meinhardt as he leads a discussion on the topic of citation styles.  Has the onslaught of tools assisting students in creating bibliographies such as RefWorks, Zotero, EndNote and others helped or harmed your efforts to reinforce good use of style?  How do you stress the importance of good citations to students when it is so easy to copy and paste.  Is correct style a thing of the past?  Join us for a lively conversation about approaches to teaching style in the classroom.

We supply the lunch, you supply the conversation!

 RSVP to Carol Franklin (cfrankl@luc.edu) by February 9^th.

 April 16, 2012 – Ethics in the Digital Age
Noon, Terry Student Center Rm. 304, WTC

 Join Dr. Don Heider, Dean of the School of Communications, as he leads a discussion on the topic of the need for digital ethics. Two billion people have used the Internet. The other four billion will soon be users. Who will provide ethical guidance for broadband’s billions of users? There currently exists a leadership vacuum regarding behavior and usage during the largest communication revolution in history.

 Why is such guidance needed?  A few recent incidents may help provide some context:

•  A Rutgers University freshman takes his own life after his roommate allegedly streamed live video of him engaging in a sexual encounter with another man.
• A suburban Philadelphia school district is accused of spying on students, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent.
• Popular online services such as Facebook and Twitter continue to push the boundaries around what is personal and private information, and what is not. The services mine data from users such as birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched.

 These cases and many more suggest to us that what is needed is more conversation about how ethics should play a central role in these debates about online behavior and policy.

 Join the discussion at Loyola’s WTC in Room 304 of the Terry Student Center on April 16 at Noon.

 We supply the lunch, you supply the conversation!

 RSVP to Carol Franklin (cfrankl@luc.edu) by (April 11, 2012).