Reprinted with permission from Ethics Rounds 2003-04 Winter;13(4):9-11. In the still uncharted territory of “narrative medicine,” the early conceptual pioneers have planted a number of boundary stakes and flags in attempts to define the width and breadth of the new discipline, in much the way that new medical subspecialties are defined and legitimized. Thus, depending on whom you read or talk t...

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Hippocrates bequeathed a set of ethical precepts that emphasized the social transcendence of the practice of medicine and the profound commitment of physicians to serve patients and their families selflessly and with a pure heart.[1] Traditionally, small-town medical practice facilitated spontaneous interpersonal relationships between family doctors and nurses and...

HICSS-48 marks the inaugural year for the Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving minitrack, and it comes at an opportune time, because the adoption of social media content as a journalistic source alongside the practice of citizen journalism, aided by the immediacy of social media as a publishing tool and the ubiquity of mobile communication devices, are reaching significant proportions....

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) announces that it will hold two days of public workshops on December 1 and 2, 2009, to examine the Internet’s impact on journalism in newspapers, magazines, broadcast television and radio, and cable television. The Internet has changed how many consumers receive news and altered the advertising landscape. Low entry barriers on the Internet ha...

How does journalism empower citizens through reporting and remembering news events, as they take shape in the era of social media in a society where the state power penetrates every aspect of social life and freedom of expression is not legally guaranteed? This inquiry is implemented through looking at the contemporary Chinese context, examining three sets of tensions that capture the character...

This article examines the “cultures of journalism” at two newspapers in the United Arab Emirates, the Arabic-language Al Ittihad and English-language The National. Founded in 2008, the latter newspaper promised to bring Western-style journalism to the Middle East, so the analysis helps to examine whether it reached this goal. The author and an Arab-language researcher used a “frame analysis” to...

Interactive infographics are increasingly used in online journalism. Especially in data-driven journalism they provide a powerful tool to represent and communicate complex information. On the basis of a content analysis of five German-speaking online newspapers we show which kinds of interactive visualizations are preferred in Germanspeaking online media. However, users are still unfamiliar wit...

Attachment Fertility Theory: Complex Systems of Mechanisms Simplify Sex, Mating, and Sexual Risks Lynn Carol Miller a , John L. Christensen b , William C. Pedersen c , Anila Putcha-Bhagavatula c & Paul Robert Appleby d a Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism & Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California b Department of Communication and Ce...