Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content (Teen Vogue) BY FORTESA LATIFI “Nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.” Though TikTok is the latest iteration, sharing about children online isn’t new. Cam, 24, goes by softscorpio on TikTok, shares videos on the need for protection to her 160,000 followers. As a child, Cam says their mother posted personal information about them to around 10,000 Facebook followers. Once, when Cam was 12, they say they got home from riding bikes and got a message from a man who inform ..read more

Can Our Humanity Survive AI? was a panel discussion that took place on Monday, March 11th at the Walsh Family Library in Flom Auditorium. The panelists included Dr. Christiana Zenner, Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies, and Dr. Andrea Vicini, is Chairperson, Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, and Professor of Theological Ethics in the Theology Department at Boston College. [ Panel Summary ] Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethi ..read more

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men (NYT) BY Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more. Thousands of accounts examined by The Times offer disturbing insights into how social media is reshaping childhood, especially for girls, with direct parental encouragement and involvement. Some parents are the driving force behind the sale of photos, exclusive chat sessions and e ..read more

Alumni Christopher White was recently interviewed for the Ethics & Society MA Alumni Spotlight Series. Having graduated in 2013, they currently work as a Vatican Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. Please click here to watch the video on YouTube and visit the Fordham Ethics YouTube Channel for all other videos in the Spotlight series. As this is the third of several other alumni interviews to be published, please consider subscribing to The Ethics and Society Blog to keep up to date with the latest posts. And for more information about the Master’s Degree Program in Ethics ..read more

Burn After Wearing (Grist) BY Julia Shipley & Muriel Alarcón A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames. There, the students surveyed the inferno. It was “like a war,” Pino said. She felt waves of heat. Black smoke unspooled from the burning clothes. The air was dense and hard to breathe. Smoke coated the back of their throats and clogged their nostrils with the acrid smell of melting plastic. They covered their faces, trying not to breathe it in. Then the group heard a series of loud pops as mini explosions burst from within the vast expanse of burni ..read more

Fordham University recently hosted the third annual New York City High School Ethics Bowl on Saturday, February 3rd, 2024, which attracted nearly 100 high school students from 16 schools in the region. The competition, managed by Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education, was a significant in-person event held at Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus, with more than 50 volunteer judges and moderators, primarily consisting of Fordham graduate and undergraduate students or alumni. Notably, the winning team from Regis High School continued their success by triumphing in the regional competition and e ..read more

Alumni Yohan Garcia was recently interviewed for the Ethics & Society MA Alumni Spotlight Series. They currently work as a Catholic Social Teaching Education Manager at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. As this is the second of several other alumni interviews to be published, please consider subscribing to The Ethics and Society Blog to keep up to date with the latest posts. And for more information about the Master’s Degree Program in Ethics and Society at Fordham, please visit: https://www.fordham.edu/ethicsandsociety Facebook Twitter Instagram WordPress ..read more

STUDENT VOICES | HONORABLE MENTION for the 2023 CHYNN ETHICS paper prize Uninformed Consent: Pelvic Examinations under Anesthesia by Anna Rubio Rodriguez, Fordham College Lincoln Center ’24 When my primary care doctor diagnosed me with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder that causes cysts on the ovaries, she explained that ovarian surgery was a high likelihood in my future. Terrified at this possibility, I immediately went home and tried to familiarize myself with ovarian surgery. What I learned during my research, however, shocked me more than anything about the actual me ..read more

The F.D.A. Warned an Asthma Drug Could Induce Despair. Many Were Never Told. (NYT) BY Christina Jewett and Benjamin Mueller Singulair, now a generic, is still used by millions of people in the United States even after thousands of patients and dozens of studies have described harm. In early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration responded to decades of escalating concerns about a commonly prescribed drug for asthma and allergies by deploying one of its most potent tools: a stark warning on the drug’s label that it could cause aggression, agitation and even suicidal thoughts. The agency’s labe ..read more

STUDENT VOICES | HONORABLE MENTION for the 2023 CHYNN ETHICS paper prize Religion: The Opium that Soothes the Ache of Ethical Dilemma Ursula K. LeGuin, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, Karl Marx, and Phoebe Buffay by Sophia Cano, Fordham College Rose Hill ’25 Joey: “Yeah, well sorry to burst that bubble, Pheebs, but selfless good deeds don’t exist. Okay?…” Phoebe: “…I will find a selfless good deed! ‘Cause I just gave birth to three children and I will not let them be raised in a world where Joey is right!” (“The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS” 00:04:27, 00:08:11) Phoebe Buffay, I, too, lament the fu ..read more