NATCHITOCHES - Paula Furr, head of the Department of Journalism at Northwestern State University recently attended the Oxford Round Table at Oxford University in England. An invited participant, Furr was one of 29 attendees there to discuss “Education and Cyberspace Law.”

        Held at the historic St. Anne’s College at Oxford University, the conference is an educational “think tank.” Furr’s presentation, “From the Printed Book to Facebook,” focused on related privacy issues and the effects of technology on mass media and society. She also served as a discussion leader after another presentation.

        “I was honored to attend and represent NSU,” Furr said. “I’m glad to have had the opportunity to meet international colleagues and experience Oxford University.”

        Furr was invited to participate based on a nomination by a previous participant. Furr has taken part in international conferences in the Ukraine, Denmark and Warwick, England.

        The Round Table seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of contemporary issues that affect the public good in all its various forms and ramifications. The public good is expansively interpreted by the Round Table to include all matters that enrich the human experience and enhance the human condition. The Oxford Round Table is a unique forum, not a conference in the conventional sense, but rather an opportunity for scholars and leaders to discuss government policy in a collegial, “think-tank” atmosphere.
 
        Each session of the Oxford Round Table is designed around a format that enables participants to present papers and to engage in discussions regarding those papers in both formal colloquy and informal dialogue. Papers presented at Round Tables may be submitted for publication in the Forum on Public Policy, an on-line and a hard copy journal of the Oxford Round Table.