Workshop on Managing Online Reader Contributions and Comments [1]
This Thursday I'll be participating in a "collaborative workshop" involving newspaper editors and media lawyers addressing the challenges associated with managing online reader contributions and comments. The half-day workshop is sponsored by the New England Newspaper Association [2], New England Press Association [3], and Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye [4].
I am especially excited about this conference because it won't be the usual panel of pontificating lawyers up on a dais (in fact, more than half the panelists are online editors). Instead, the focus will be on the practical issues news organizations are facing, such moderating "gutter talk," dealing with anonymity, preventing online harassment, and responding to subpoenas. I'll be giving an overview of the immunity provisions in section 230 of the Communications Decency Act [5], but I expect the conversation will quickly move to how law, journalistic ethics, and basic civility interact online.
The conference, which runs from 9:00am to 1:30pm at the Crowne Plaza in Worcester, Massachusetts, costs $25 per person. The registration fee includes a luncheon talk by Josh Benton, founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab [6], who will discuss the "changing journalist-audience relationship." If you are interested in attending, please use this registration form [7].
If you are in the Boston area on Thursday, please consider stopping by.
Subject Area:
- DMCA [8]
- Section 230 [9]
- Anonymity [10]
- User Comments or Submissions [11]
Comments
Follow up? [12]
As someone contemplating the pros and cons of a blog I found this interesting. Any high points from the conference would be appriciated.
I think that this conference [14]
I think that this conference was very interesting. Detailed transcript would be appreciated. Mike
It is amazing in this day [15]
It is amazing in this day and age that we have "cyber bullies" that destroy forums, blogs and cause harm to our online social media outlets. These forums and blogs were started, much like our newspapers hundreds of years ago, as a free form discussion of ideas. But like everything in our world, we are welcome to disagree, but just not voice our disagreements.