Clifford G. Christians, a leading scholar in media ethics, will present "Truth in a Technological Age" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 27.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. in Norlin Library's British and Irish Studies room as part of the annual Ralph L. Crosman Memorial Lecture. It is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.
The lecture is subtitled: "Truth has long been central to communication ethics but the media are in a revolution, globally and technologically. Is truth still relevant? Even possible any longer?"
Christians is the Charles H. Sandage Distinguished Professor and a research professor of communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the chair of the university's doctoral program in communications and former director of the Institute of Communications Research.
He has co-authored many books, including "Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning" and "Normative Theories of the Media."
The Crosman Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Ralph L. Crosman, the first director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He worked as a professor at the school from 1921 to 1937, and served as director until 1948. In 1952, a group of his former students, friends and colleagues created the Crosman Memorial Fund, which enabled the school to establish the lecture series the following year.
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