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"This is the first part of a four-part series on native advertising. Part 2: "Publishers become content producers." Part 3: "How ethical is native advertising?" Part 4: "Future of native advertising""

""We build a digital effigy of a human being and set it alight in some kind of group catharsis," Nayna said. "It's not something I'll ever take part in again, and I'm fairly confident that if we're ever able to settle into a mature code of ethics for the internet, we'll look back at shaming as a primitive phase we went through." To this day, Nayna struggles to find the right way to respond to people who regard him as a hero for having created the video. "It was a shitty thing that I did," he says in the film. "If you look at the outcomes, I was exacting revenge. Do you make someone better by attacking them and making them feel horrible? I don't think that's true.""

Full Video "Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids."

"As 2012 nears its end, we look back at the major trends and memorable events that defined photography and photojournalism this year."

"The curriculum is broken into six sections: historical perspective social media writing process engagement social media writing structure media analysis law/ethics Even though technology is constantly advancing, I believe these sections can be adapted for any type of technology or new social media network that will be developed."

"As part of our new privacy initiative, we'll discuss themes of social media, surveillance, ethics, and of course, privacy in Eggers' thought-provoking new novel. If you've read the novel (or even part of it) we hope you'll join the conversation!"

"The print ad above, featuring the actress, is drawing praise, but also some criticism for excessive Photoshopping. It's not on the usual social-ethical grounds but because, as Emily Leaman over at Philly Magazine suggests, the ad looks more like a "pre-pubescent 12-year-old boy than the strong, broad-shouldered, post-pubscent Jennifer Lawrence we know in movies like Silver Linings Playbook and The Hunger Games.""

"In their book, "Blur: How to know what's true in the age of information overload," Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel speak of a news process they call "skeptical knowing." Applying this process, they say, will help journalists and audiences better evaluate information they receive - and pass on. The process involves not only evaluating news but also applying ethical values. This lesson will explore the basics of that process in trying to determine whether facts and sources used lead to reliable, credible and complete storytelling."

"Any revolution in the depiction of women's bodies is not going to come from marketers, whose job it is to construct a narrative in which a person is incomplete until a product is purchased-and so must create feelings of unworthiness and desire, as well as an impulse to change. The problem with looking to companies, even well-meaning ones, to determine ethical standards is that the effort will always feel cynical at some level. And so, as it ever was, the representation of the female form will continue to be a battleground."

"If it's easy to ignore the ceaseless drone of ethical violations from the social network, turn your attention instead to the companies who happily shared in the harvesting of your personal data to bolster their own products - without clear disclosures or any consent whatsoever. Facebook is a problem, but the online economy that trades on your data is a bigger one."

"CRISPR is fast becoming a household term, with one of the key scientists exploring this gene-editing mechanism following close behind. Jennifer Doudna, PhD, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, co-authored a breakthrough paper in 2012 examining how it works and suggesting how it might be harnessed by humans. Such a tool is already beginning to transform agriculture, medicine, and our understanding of the human species. It's also dusting up a fair amount of controversy. With transformative technologies come ethical questions: How should CRISPR be used, for what, and by whom? No surprise, these questions are being debated in boardrooms and in the courts as leading scientists compete for startup funding and face off against their former collaborators in patent disputes about who can use the tech."

"Some argue it's the only way to save the species"

"how would you like to see any of the comments you leave on your friend's Facebook page show up the next day on the front page of the newspaper, as a quote, attributed to you? Two separate incidents not too long ago raised this question for me. "

"Today's edition of The Boston Globe includes a fake front page that imagines the state of America under the presidency of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Although the cover looks like the front page for the entire newspaper, it's actually the first page of the Boston Globe's ideas section, which is tucked inside the daily edition. The ideas section is a Sunday edition of the Globe that combines a mix of reporting and commentary on major intellectual trends. Scattered with such alarming headlines as "US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families" and "markets sink as trade war looms," the page is a fictional snapshot of daily news one year from now, about three months into Trump's imagined presidency."

"You may have heard that self-driving cars are safer than cars with human drivers. And that's probably true. Still, as driverless vehicles inch closer and closer to the country's freeways and side streets, we'll probably hear more and more about AI-controlled vehicles getting into deadly accidents. Even a perfect driver can't avoid every accident. So if a self-driving car finds itself in a situation where a deadly accident is inevitable, how should it make a decision to minimize the damage?"

"What are we to believe, even when we see something with our own eyes? As Poynter senior faculty member Al Tompkins says, "The difference between accuracy and truth is context.'' That's the lesson when it comes to looking at the video of the standoff between Catholic high school students and the Native American drummer in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. We all saw what we saw. A young man wearing a Make America Great Again hat standing in front of a Native American banging a drum and chanting. But did we really see what we think we saw? Some of us saw a long video of the event. Some of us saw an abbreviated version. Some of us saw just a photo."