The Political and Ethical Implications of Youth Technoculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-169
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Implications

scholarly journals Political control and journalist protests in Spanish public media in electoral campaigns: A decade of conflict

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Carme Ferré-Pavia
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Previous Election ◽  
Public Broadcaster

For thirteen consecutive years, Catalan public broadcasting journalists have protested against the so-called coverage quotas established by Spanish electoral regulations. According to those regulations, during election campaigns, broadcasters are required to use a calculated number related to the proportion of votes cast in the previous election to determine the amount of broadcast time they allot to each party. Journalists have repeatedly and publicly complained about the quotas, while simultaneously explaining the effects of the quotas to the audience and not crediting authorship of this news. This paper undertakes an in-depth analysis of the case and its historical roots from different angles: the protests, the journalists’ professional roles, the political parties’ strategies, the roles of the regulatory boards and the initiatives taken by some professional organizations and institutions. The theoretical framework focuses on the mistrust between the political class and journalists in the context of a mediatized conflict with ethical implications. The methodology includes extensive document examination, news content analysis and interviews. The results indicate that the Spanish political class has deemed the performance of the Catalan public broadcaster as tending to equate political information with electoral spots controlled by parties. The consequence of this has been an enduring conflict between politicians and Catalan journalists that distances citizens from both of them. Keywords: Spanish public media, media conflict, journalistic-political conflict, politics and ethics in media.

Welcome to The Jungle: Performing Borders and Belonging in Contemporary British Migration Theatre

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-244
Author(s):  
EMMA WELTON
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Contemporary Performance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Contemporary Britain

This article explores the political and ethical implications of performance representing the ongoing realities of migration in contemporary Britain. Using Good Chance Theatre's The Jungle (2018) as its point of departure, the article problematizes the use of dramaturgies of proximity to confect simplistic notions of empathy as tantamount to political change. In a Brechtian vein, the article argues for modes of distanciation to foster critical engagement among audiences at the site of contemporary performance on migration. Focusing upon the production's West End transfer, its use of immersive strategies and its use of a comedic model to address ongoing issues in migration, this article finds that such strategies are not as politically transgressive as marketing and critical reception often contend them to be, with the onus of responsibility placed solely upon the individual spectator.

Media Ventriloquism

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
The Relationship

Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term “ventriloquism,” which has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one’s voice into an object that appears to speak, to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. Indeed, media technologies have the potential to separate voice from body and to constitute new relationships between them that could scarcely have been imagined before such technologies’ invention and mass circulation. Radio, cinema, television, video games, digital technologies, and other media have each fundamentally transformed the relationship between voice and body in myriad and often unexpected ways. This volume interrogates the categorical definitions of voice and body as they operate within mediated environments, exploring the experiences of ventriloquism facilitated by media technologies and theorizing some of the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices. It builds in particular on Steven Connor’s notion of the vocalic body, which he coined to identify an imaginary body that is created and maintained primarily through voice. In modifying Connor’s term to theorize the “technovocalic body,” the study focuses on cases in which the relationship between voice and body has been modified specifically by media technologies. The chapters in this collection demonstrate not only how particular bodies and voices have been (mis)represented through media ventriloquism but also how marginalized groups—racialized, gendered, queered, etc.—have used media ventriloquism to claim their agency and power.

scholarly journals Invited commentary: Community treatment orders

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 647-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Burns
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Community Treatment Orders ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Ethical Implications

Moncrieff & Smyth (1999, this issue) are certainly right that community treatment orders (CTOs) are high on the agenda and that psychiatrists need to think long and hard about them – about the political and ethical implications, not just their practical and therapeutic applications. Their concerns are important and reflect a wide constituency – identical views were expressed and considered during the consultation that preceded the College's document proposing a Community Supervision Order in 1993 (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993). Moncrieff & Smyth make no mention of that document, nor the limited, but recent, survey of psychiatrists' opinions that accompanied it (Burns et al, 1993). Do all College documents achieve obscurity quite so quickly?

4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Eduardo Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethical Implications

Drawing on his ethnographic research among Indigenous communities in Ecuador, Eduardo Kohn considers the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests in Chapter 4. It is a diplomatic undertaking that seeks to integrate multiple ways of understanding the cosmos, and it is an ontological undertaking that rethinks the very nature of existence by recognizing the intelligence inherent in all life.

The looking machine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David MacDougall
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
History Of

The looking machine calls for the redemption of documentary cinema, exploring the potential and promise of the genre at a time when it appears under increasing threat from reality television, historical re-enactments, designer packaging, and corporate authorship. The book consists of a set of essays each focused on a particular theme derived from the author’s own experience as a filmmaker. It provides a practice-based, critical perspective on the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, questions of aesthetics, and the intellectual and emotional relationships between filmmakers and their subjects. It is especially concerned with the potential of film to broaden the base of human knowledge, distinct from its expression in written texts. Among its underlying concerns are the political and ethical implications of how films are actually made, and the constraints that may prevent filmmakers from honestly showing what they have seen. While defending the importance of the documentary idea, MacDougall urges us to consider how the form can become a ‘cinema of consciousness’ that more accurately represents the sensory and everyday aspects of human life. Building on his experience bridging anthropology and cinema, he argues that this means resisting the inherent ethnocentrism of both our own society and the societies we film.

Arendt, role theory and the ethical evaluation of action

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Sociology

In what way can social action be simultaneously inquired into and ethically evaluated by social theory? This paper explores the responsibility sociology has with regard to the political and ethical implications of its knowledge production and does so through a case study examination of the sociological concept of role. It compares and evaluates the different orientations that ground the concept of role and Arendt’s concept of action, which is then expanded to address the critique of the social sciences by theorists like Arendt and Foucault. The paper engages a particular tradition of reflexive sociology in the context of the danger of banal evil (Eichmann) and in the context of modern structures of domination that makes that danger more prevalent. Arguing that a theoretical non-empirical reflexivity is called for, and drawing on the phenomenological reflexivity of Berger and the constitutive reflexivity of Blum and McHugh, the paper seeks to demonstrate the need for a reflexive awareness of the actor’s responsibility for action and the theorist’s responsibility for formulating action that can make conceptual space for reasoned evaluation oriented by and to principle.

Commitment to Degree Zero: Barthes’ First Approaches to the Neutral

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Yue Zhuo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
Late Development ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Collège De France

This essay links Barthes’ late development on the Neutral in his 1978 Collège de France lecture course to his early reflections on the ‘white’ or ‘neutral’ writing by looking at lesser-known materials: articles published in the sanatorial student journal Existences (1942–4), and in the newspaper Combat (1947–51), as well as how these pieces were integrated into his first book, Writing Degree Zero (1953). I show that Barthes’ first approaches to the ‘neutral’, under the spell of Sartre’s theory of committed literature, both ‘consents’ to the idea of the political responsibility of literature and rejects it, creating a third, crosswise notion of writing that prefigures the recalcitrant force of the Neutral. By exploring the complexities of these early pieces, I argue that some of the unsolved issues will reappear in the Collège de France lecture course, notably the figure of ‘aporia’, and I discuss the ethical implications of this ‘impossibility’.

Die Phänomenologie als Praxis in politisch-ethischer Hinsicht

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Natalie Depraz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Interests

The problem of practice in phenomenology including the political and ethical consequences of phenomenology has long been the focus of my personal interests and my philosophical, that is to say, phenomenological research. The guiding principle is that taking phenomenology as a description of the experiences of a subject rooted within experience is not only concerned with the theorisation of the experience but also necessary with the practices of the subject. In France, the “mainstream”-reading of a phenomenology which orientates itself towards logic, mathematics and transcendental philosophy prevailed for far too long, with the result that the interest in social sciences, psychology and neurobiology (the so called “cognitive sciences”) is often still met with scepticism. Instead I want to understand phenomenology as a practice through exercise which as practice has political and ethical implications.

Truths of Traitors: Colonial Collaboration and Autobiographical Narratives in Postliberation Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Ji Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
The People ◽  
Arduous Task ◽  
Autobiographical Texts

Abstract This article examines post-1945 autobiographical writings by alleged pro-Japanese collaborators, focusing on how these ex-colonized Korean writers represented their “shameful” pasts. Autobiographical narratives that confess to writers’ collaborations are customarily interpreted as excuses or self-justifications for collaboration that distort colonial memories. This customary reading of autobiographical writings, based on the factuality and sincerity of the narratives, seems to derive from a preceding literary practice of reading sosŏlga sosŏl (novels about novelists) during the late colonial period, a tacit contract between reader and author of expecting fiction to represent the author’s transparent life narrative. In challenging this mode of reading, this article traces the rhetorical styles and effects and the complexities of the political and ethical implications of two famous confessions of collaboration: Yi Kwangsu’s My Confession and Ch’ae Mansik’s “Sinner of the People.” In doing so, this article demonstrates how specific rhetorical devices produce the sincerity of the autobiographical texts and give closure to the dishonorable colonial past. The author presents a new approach to pro-Japanese collaboration by exploring the arduous task of closure, self-reflection, and decolonization undertaken by Korean writers in the postliberation period, when the decolonizing project was deemed a failure.

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