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The invention of journalism ethics : the path to objectivity and beyond
\"Does objectivity exist in the news media? In The Invention of Journalism Ethics, Stephen Ward argues that given the current emphasis on interpretation, analysis, and perspective, journalists and the public need a new theory of objectivity. He explores the varied ethical assertions of journalists over the past few centuries, focusing on the changing relationship between journalist and audience. This historical analysis leads to an innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity that enables journalists and the public to recognize and avoid biased and unbalanced reporting. Ward convincingly demonstrates that journalistic objectivity is not a set of absolute standards but the same fallible but reasonable objectivity used for making decisions in other professions and public institutions. Considered a classic in the field since its first publication in 2004, this second edition includes new chapters that bring the book up to speed with journalism ethics in the twenty-first century by focusing on the growing dominance of online journalism and calling for a radical approach to journalism ethics reform. Ward also addresses important developments that have occurred in the last decade, including the emergence of digital journalism ethics and global journalism ethics.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Logic to Nature : a Study of Objectivity and the Idea in Hegel's Science of Logic
This thesis gives a new interpretation for the infamous move from Hegel's Science of Logic to the Philosophy of Nature. Briefly, I argue that the reason for the move to the PN is grounded in the immanent development of the SL, that because of this the PN is a continuation of the examination of the determinations of thought and being that begins with the SL, and that, consequently, the PN develops according to the same methodological tenets as the SL. My approach is to focus on the move to the PN through the development of the relation of the Concept and Objectivity. The final determination of the SL, the system, is the absolute unity of the Concept and Objectivity and it is this determination that subsequently develops into the self-external Idea, Nature. Thus, I begin by briefly outlining the development of the Concept through the chapters of Judgement and Syllogism, where at the end of Syllogism the Concept determines itself into Objectivity. Beginning from Objectivity, I give a detailed account of the way that the Concept develops out of Objectivity, until it relates to Objectivity in the chapter on Life. I, then, trace the development of the Concept-Objectivity relation through the Idea section, which ultimately culminates in the absolute unity of the Concept and Objectivity in the system. The system is the immediate self-relation of itself to itself, and despite the immediacy and identity, has a moment of difference within itself. The expression of this difference within the self-relating system necessarily leads us into the self-external Idea: the unity of the Concept and Objectivity that is external to itself, i.e. Nature. Not only does my thesis fill an important interpretive gap regarding the coherence of the Hegelian system, a concern for many Hegelians, but I claim that it furnishes us with a concept of Nature as it is in-itself. Such a conception can open avenues for a normative ethical theory for how we ought to treat Nature in the current environmental crisis, as well as having implications for contemporary philosophy of science that engages with Nature within the parameters of science and the scientific method instead of with Nature as it is in-itself.
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Objectivity in contexts
In this paper I discuss and develop the risk account of scientific objectivity, which I have recently introduced, contrasting it to some alternatives. I then use the account in order to analyse a practice that is relatively common in anthropology, in the history of science, and in the sociology of scientific knowledge: withholding epistemic judgement. I argue that withholding epistemic judgement on the beliefs one is studying can be a relatively efficient strategy against collective bias in these fields. However, taking into account the criticisms presented against the strategy, I also argue that it is a usable strategy only when the distance between the researchers and their ideas, and the people and ideas being studied, is significant enough.
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The Feeling of Numbers
This article highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with data. We draw on an empirical study to show a wide range of emotional engagements with diverse aspects of data and their visualisation, and so demonstrate the importance of emotions as vital components of making sense of data. We nuance the argument that regimes of datafication, in which numbers, metrics and statistics dominate, are characterised by a renewed faith in objectivity and rationality, arguing that in datafied times, it is not only numbers but also the feeling of numbers that is important. We build on the sociology of (a) emotions and (b) the everyday to do this, and in so doing, we contribute to the development of a sociology of data.
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Objetividad no física
Es frecuente que, con la pretensión de exponer ciertos contenidos de (por de pronto) el capítulo primero de El capital, se encuentren formulaciones referentes a qué sea lo que constituya la substancia-valor, esto es, la substancia común que se expresaría en la equivalencia a efectos de cambio entre cosas cualitativamente diferentes; se dice entonces que esa substancia \"es\" o \"está constituida por\" el \"trabajo abstracto\" o \"trabajo igual\" o \"trabajo socialmente necesario\", y se intenta con mayor o menor fortuna exponer qué significan estas expresiones, así como justificar la opción por esa tesis. Ahora nos interesa, en cambio, subrayar un punto que no siempre está claro en esas exposiciones y que, sin embargo, es indispensable para que las mismas tengan algún sentido; a saber: hay que explicar, ante todo, por qué se considera que tiene que haber una substanciavalor. Esta explicación, que ha de ser anterior a que se discuta sobre cuál es o cómo está constituida esa substancia, ha de incluir dos momentos, a saber, por qué a las relaciones de cambio tiene que subyacer alguna determinación objetiva y por qué esa determinación no puede ser ninguna de las propiedades físicas de las cosas, esto es, ninguna magnitud física. En otras palabras: se ha de explicar ante todo por qué existe el problema de encontrar una objetividad no física.
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Objectivity : a very short introduction
\"Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. This Very Short Introduction explores the theoretical and practical problems raised by objectivity, and also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity impinge on social research, science, and art\"-- Provided by publisher.
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