Science: Where do we draw the line?

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J. D. Drenth
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

Science is not taken for granted any longer. Society, politics and the media frequently pose critical questions tending to censorship or at least control of science. How does science react? On the one hand it cannot exist and develop without freedom: on the other hand this does not mean freedom to amass knowledge at any price and without restrictions. Thus, the scientist must balance freedom and ethical and social responsibility. This paper will reflect on the question of the limitations of science; who should control what and on which criteria

Prometheus Chained

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J.D. Drenth
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Demand Censorship

The Chained Prometheus is introduced as a metaphor for the behavioral scientist. Science (including psychology and pedagogy) is no longer taken for granted. Society, politics, and the media pose critical questions and not infrequently demand censorship or at least control of science. An analysis is given of the types of criticism and skepticism with respect to science, and to psychology in particular. The (behavioral) scientist faces a dilemma: On the one hand, science cannot exist and develop without freedom; on the other hand, this does not mean the freedom to amass knowledge at any price and without any restrictions. Thus, we balance ourselves between freedom and ethical/social responsibility. This presentation reflects on the question of the social and ethical limitations of (behavioral) science: Who should control what and on which criteria?

Human and Nonhuman Animals, Mutually at Risk: A Study of the Swiss Information Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-355
Author(s):  
Annik Dubied Losa ◽  
Claudine Burton-Jeangros
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Avian Flu ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Media ◽  
The One

AbstractNowadays, relationships between nonhuman animals and humans are debated, often in relation to issues associated with the risks they represent for each other. On the one hand, new diseases and accidents indicate that animals are not as innocuous as they were long thought; on the other hand, the now questioned human impact on the natural environment is considered a risk for animals. This research analyzed these contrasting images of animals in the Swiss information media. Of the five main animal figures identified over the last 30 years, this paper focuses on the Undesirable Animal and the Victim Animal. These two figures have existed throughout the observed period; in contrast to Victim Animals, however, who appear fairly infrequently, Undesirable Animals have become more and more common in the last decade, usually in relation to a specific issue (such as the avian flu). This suggests that the media more often convey the dominant anthropocentric relationship to animals, reflecting a preoccupation with the protection of humans against dangerous animals, whereas the protection of animals from humans is considered less important. Recent controversies demonstrate, however, that the frontier between “us” and “them” is regularly renegotiated.

Drei Phantasiestücke (3)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Brodsky
Keyword(s):  
East Germany ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Society Of The Spectacle ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Empty Signifier ◽  
As If ◽  
The Revolution

In the quarter century since the collapse of East Germany, the uncountable reflections that flower the media landscape inevitably turn to music. And when they do, they waffle. There is something untimely, and uncanny, about this waffling. It is as if the tensions structuring music's role in the heady days of the late 1960s were being therapeutically replayed twenty years later: 1968 yet again as the fetish object. On the one hand, music here is the fantasmatic sound of revolution itself, of truth speaking to power, and power falling to pieces under the weight of truth's irrefutable audibility, equal parts libido and righteousness. On the other hand, it is the traumatic reminder of failure, and the disenchanting premise that this “society of the spectacle” was not so powerful after all—that the revolution, in merely appearing, failed to show up. Judging from the examples of Hasselhoff, Rostropovich, and Bernstein, this chapter argues that music seems woven perfectly into a master's discourse: a process of shoring up a sovereign, of suturing itself to an empty signifier, producing a split subject, and precipitating an excessive enjoyment in the form of an object of desire.

scholarly journals Odcienie obcości. Wyniki sondażu „Polacy i inni 30 lat później” — analiza porównawcza (1988, 1998, 2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-198
Author(s):  
Ewa Nowicka ◽  
Sławomir Łodziński
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One

The aim of the article is to analyze selected results of the 2018 survey “Poles and Others after Thirty Years” on attitudes to the arrival of foreigners in Poland and to compare them with the results of analogous studies from 1988 and 1998. The authors suggest that the notion of “foreign” is becoming increasingly definite in the consciousness of Polish society. There is a noticeable decline in openness in regard to more foreigners coming to Poland and an increase in the number of people who are clearly opposed to foreigners. The authors argue that the current attitudes of the respondents could have been influenced, on the one hand, by their personal experiences, which in the last few years have begun to take the form of real (non-abstract) contact with foreigners (immigrants), and on the other hand, by the media discourse related to the migration crisis of 2015. In light of the research, open (inclusive) attitudes toward foreigners can not be reduced to simple yes or no answers but remain related to wider world-outlook complexes reflecting the shape of Polish society, which in recent years has experienced the effects of immigration.

scholarly journals Emotional education and mass media

Comunicar ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Rafael Bisquerra-Alzina ◽  
Gemma Filella-Guiu
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
The Media ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Emotional Education

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between emotional education and the media from two different points of view. On the one hand, the emotional dimension of the media and their implication in education. On the other hand, the media as a El objetivo de este artículo es reflexionar sobre el binomio «educación emocional y medios de comunicación» desde dos puntos de vista. Por un lado, la dimensión emocional de los medios de comunicación y su implicación en la acción educativa y, por otro, los medios de comunicación como transmisores de educación emocional. Los autores finalizan presentando un conjunto de programas de educación emocional.

Programming the News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taina Bucher
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Algorithmic Logic ◽  
The One ◽  
Institutional Actors

Algorithmic power and politics stems in part from how algorithms acquire the capacity to disturb and to compose new sensibilities as part of situated practices, particularly in terms of how they become invested with certain political and moral capacities. Looking at how algorithms materialize in the institutional setting of the news media, the chapter considers how algorithms are made to matter. Based on field observations and 20 interviews with digital editors and managers at leading Scandinavian news organizations the chapter explores how institutional actors are responding to the proliferation of data and algorithms. The analysis shows how, on the one hand, news organizations feel the pressure to reorient their practices toward the new algorithmic logic governing the media landscape at large. On the other hand, algorithms work to disturb and question established boundaries and norms of what journalism is and ought to be.

Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise

Noir Affect ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 156-177
Author(s):  
Peter Hitchcock
Keyword(s):  
Free Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Old Japanese ◽  
The Media ◽  
Police Procedural ◽  
The One

This chapter explores noir affect in Ghost in a Shell, a quarter-century-old, Japanese manga/anime franchise that spans several series in print, feature films, and television. Whatever the media, the different versions of the narrative conform to standard expectations of adolescent heterosexual masculinism. Yet such elements seem to form the series’ mystical shell rather than the conflicted and contradictory rationality of their central kernel (which itself springs from the serial logic of the noir police procedural). On the one hand, the chapter argues that representational aesthetics necessarily constrain even the radical and free association of an anime subculture; on the other hand, the series critically engages the forms of time articulated in the intersection of cyborg signification and seriality. Cyborg affect does not just ask the familiar question, where does a body end? It also interrogates the terms of technological reproducibility in relationship to political possibility. The synchrony of Major Motoko Kusanagi (the central character/cyborg) holds important lessons for how we read/see affect in relationship to the series, a formation haunted by the ghost of socialization itself.

scholarly journals The Mediatization of Society

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stig Hjarvard
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The One

Abstract Using mediatization as the key concept, this article presents a theory of the influence media exert on society and culture. After reviewing existing discussions of mediatization by Krotz (2007), Schulz (2004), Thompson (1995), and others, an institutional approach to the mediatization process is suggested. Mediatization is to be considered a double-sided process of high modernity in which the media on the one hand emerge as an independent institution with a logic of its own that other social institutions have to accommodate to. On the other hand, media simultaneously become an integrated part of other institutions like politics, work, family, and religion as more and more of these institutional activities are performed through both interactive and mass media. The logic of the media refers to the institutional and technological modus operandi of the media, including the ways in which media distribute material and symbolic resources and make use of formal and informal rules.

scholarly journals Part II: Measuring Media-related Educational Competencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-151
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tiede
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Media Pedagogy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

Measuring the media-related educational competencies of preservice teachers is important for the context of this dissertation because it functions as a link between the dimensions of modeling and advancing competencies: on the one hand, measurement instruments can validate and operationalize underlying models, which means concretizing and defining what a competency aspect comprises by observable and measurable behavior. On the other hand, measuring competencies is important in terms of evaluating practices of advancement, because it allows for grounded conclusions, e.g., on the success and outcomes of such practices. This evaluative perspective will be stressed below. However, competency measuring is a complex and challenging task. The following part of this dissertation will give an overview of this context, apply the findings to the models analyzed in Part I and then introduce and discuss an example of a measurement with Paper 1, “Media Pedagogy in U.S. and German Teacher Education,” concluded by further considerations.

scholarly journals The Media (Studies) of the Pandemic Moment: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-561
Author(s):  
Jonathan Corpus Ong ◽  
Diane Negra
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anniversary Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The One

Television & New Media commemorates its 20th year anniversary with this diverse collection of short reflection pieces on the “intellectual and institutional turbulence” facing media studies and the ways our colleagues have taken up these challenges in their work. Our introduction to the anniversary issue specifically addresses the role of media and media studies in the COVID-19 pandemic moment. On the one hand, our discipline has the opportunity to reinforce and reflect on its long-held arguments as we see how the pandemic reveals key insights of the field with uncanny clarity. On the other hand, for some, there is the nagging sensation we will have to do more and better if we are to adequately account for all the features of the current crisis.

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