Michael J Bugeja
Michael Bugeja teaches media ethics at the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, which he directed from 2003-2017. In 2015 he won the Scripps Howard Administrator of the Year Award. The Iowa Newspaper Association honored him with the Distinguished Service Award. He twice won the distinguished Clifford Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics. The student bodies at Oklahoma State and Ohio University gave him outstanding teaching awards.
Biography
Michael Bugeja, professor, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, teaches media ethics. This is his site. He began his journalism career at United Press International. From there he became media adviser for the O'Collegian at Oklahoma State University. He also was tenured and promoted at OSU. He then taught media ethics for 17 years at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where he was promoted to professor, serving as assistant to the President and also associate director. He came to ISU in 2003 as director of the Greenlee School and served 14 years, earning college and university top administrator awards and the 2015 Scripps Howard Administrator of the Year Award. The Iowa Newspaper Association honored him in 2017 with the Distinguished Service Award. He has published several books, including two ethics books by Oxford University Press: Interpersonal Divide: Searching for Community in a Technological Age and Living Ethics Across Media Platforms. Both books won the distinguished Clifford Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics. His latest work is Living Media Ethics: Across Platforms, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Media ethics, journalism, technology and social change.
Personal Interests
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Writing, hiking, family.
Websites
Books
Articles
Managing Your Reputation in a Time of Cultural Shift
Published: Oct 10, 2018 by Inside Higher Ed
Authors: Bugeja, Michael
Michael Bugeja endorses 10 tenets that may help you enhance your standing and effect positive change in your institution.
The Fuss: Trigger Warnings and Microaggressions
Published: Oct 10, 2018 by Inside Higher Ed
Authors: Bugeja, Michael
Subjects:
Education
How can professors best introduce provocative material in the classroom in an age of trigger warnings, microaggressions and tweeting? Michael Bugeja tackles the issue.
Internships and Harassment: Avenues of Redress between Titles VII and IX
Published: Oct 10, 2018 by The Department Chair
Authors: Bugeja, Michael
Subjects:
Mass Communications
Journalism programs requiring or recommending internships need to focus on legalities associated with unpaid internships, as students may not be covered by federal anti-discrimination laws.
Technology and the Assault on Truth
Published: Oct 10, 2018 by Journal of Media Ethics
Authors: Bugeja, Michael
Subjects:
Mass Communications
Mobile technology was supposed to revitalize newsrooms; citizen journalism, to document truth; and crowd-sourcing, to revitalize assembly. Instead, newsrooms were downsized; social media, politicized; and smart mobs, trolled, all factors in the 2016 presidential election.
“Making the Connection”: Aggregate Internship Data as Direct and Indirect Measure Informing Curricula and Assessment
Published: Oct 10, 2018 by Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
Authors: Bugeja, Michael
This article focuses on aggregate internship data from an accredited Midwestern mass communications school to illustrate how feedback loops inform curricula and assessment according to standards of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC).
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