Overcoming the objectivity of the senses: Enhancing journalism practice through Eastern philosophies

Martinisi, Alessandro; Lugo‐Ocando, Jairo

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“…This is of course a false dichotomy as in both cases the ultimate goal of journalists is to achieve social justice despite normative claims of neutrality. 18 This tension is also present between journalists advocating for equality of outcomes and those advocating for equality of opportunities. In the context of humanitarian communication there should be no doubt; journalism is normatively committed to helping those who suffer.…”

Section: Jairo Lugo-ocando and Gabriel Andradementioning

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Selling the lott ery to earn salvation

Lugo‐Ocando¹,

Andrade²

2019

Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture

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Section: Jairo Lugo-ocando and Gabriel Andradementioning

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Selling the lott ery to earn salvation

Lugo‐Ocando¹,

Andrade²

2019

Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture

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“…Detachment, however, was rejected by Lenin, as he saw media as a good way to educate and mobilize masses (Lugo-Ocando & Glück, 2018). In a related sense, truth inquiries can be under stood as social justice instead of objective facts alone, as pointed out for a more Eastern Buddhist context, where benefits for society gain importance (Martinisi & Lugo-Ocando, 2015). The idea of social justice echoes in Latin American understandings; while Ubuntu journalism sets ideally on benefits for a community.…”

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De-Westernization and Decolonization in Media Studies

Glück¹

2018

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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The need to de-Westernize and decolonize communication and media studies is based on criticisms on a dominant elitist “Western” axiology and epistemology of universal validity, leaving aside indigenous and localized philosophical traditions originating in non-Western settings. Scholars of the Global South continue to question a dominant inherent Eurocentric bias that was—and continuous to be—underlying many Anglo-American and European research projects. Scholars warn against a persistent influence of foreign-imposed concepts such as modernity and development, as well as universal assumptions regarding the use of certain categories and ontologies to deconstruct and understand the media around the globe. While the West is understood more as a center of power than as a fixed geographical entity, de-Westernization asks for a revision of the power relations in global academic knowledge production and dissemination. The most prominent call for de-Westernizing media studies goes back to Curran and Park who, in the early 2000s, encouraged a Western academic community to revise and re-evaluate their theories, epistemologies, methods, and empirical research approaches, especially in research targeting the Global South. In a similar way, the call for decolonization asks to investigate and question continuing colonial power imbalances, power dependencies, and colonial legacies. It challenges the uncritical adoption of research epistemologies and methods of former colonial powers in solving local problems, as they fail to explain the complexities of non-Western societies and communities, asking for practicing “decolonial epistemic disobedience.” Contrary to de-Westernization aimed at a Western research community, scholars from the Global South have struggled for decades for international recognition of their voices and intellectual contributions to a global academic community. Their ideas draw on post-colonialism, subaltern studies, or a critical-reflective sociology. Different efforts have been made to address the global imbalance in media studies knowledge generation. However, neither replacing theories with indigenous concepts alone nor being relegated to cases studies that deliver raw data will gain ground in favor of countries of the Global South, as research efforts need to incorporate both local realities and wider contextualization, or the call for a research with a region, not just about or from it. More successful are cooperative South-South efforts, as the thriving scholar networks in Latin America, Africa, or Asia demonstrate. The de-Westernization and decolonization project is ongoing. Where inequalities appear most pressing are in resource access and allocation, in conference participation, or in publishing opportunities. In this sense, journalism and media studies curricula still reflect largely an Anglophone centrism and a lack of understanding of local issues and expectations. Here, more reflective de-Westernizing approaches can help to lessen the gaps. However, as de-Westernization relies on vague geographical categorizations, the term cannot be the final path to re-balance the academic knowledge exchange between powerful and less powerful actors.

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“…En este sentido, la ciencia se superpuso a la religión como un régimen discursivo que aspira a ser objetivo y científico, y para el cual la única realidad verdadera es aquella que es tangible y cuantificable, donde ni emociones ni creencias morales tienen lugar en el análisis (Glück, 2016;Martinisi y Lugo-Ocando, 2015). La forma en que los grandes medios occidentales dieron cobertura tanto al conflicto como a la sociedad civil que se oponía a la guerra en el 2003 tuvo -como hemos visto en los años subsiguientes-un efecto perverso en los niveles de credibilidad en los políticos, los medios noticiosos y la argumentación científica, en general.…”

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