Pragmatist Media Ethics and the Challenges of Fake News

Stroud, Scott R.

doi:10.1080/23736992.2019.1672554

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“…Scholars have made persuasive arguments for employing a pragmatist ethical approach to the regulation of misinformation (Stroud, 2019), and we contend that this argument applies equally well to the regulation of health misinformation. This is because preventing the spread of health misinformation is a 'wicked problem' (Head, 2008).…”

Section: The Ethics Of Health Misinformation Regulationmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…From a deontological perspective, it could be argued that by regulating false health information governments are manipulating the public (Rossi and Yudell, 2012), interfering in the autonomy of individuals to engage with health information on their own terms, and disrespecting the intrinsic moral worth of the human capacity for rationality, which would be unacceptable. However it is equally possible to argue the opposite, that regulating false health information facilitates autonomous decision-making (Ruger, 2018;Stroud, 2019).…”

Section: The Ethics Of Health Misinformation Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health misinformation and freedom of expression: considerations for policymakers

Marecos

Shattock

Bartlett

et al. 2023

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Health misinformation, most visibly following the COVID-19 infodemic, is an urgent threat that hinders the success of public health policies. It likely contributed, and will continue to contribute, to avoidable deaths. Policymakers around the world are being pushed to tackle this problem. Legislative acts have been rolled out or announced in many countries and at the European Union level. The goal of this paper is not to review particular legislative initiatives, or to assess the impact and efficacy of measures implemented by digital intermediaries, but to reflect on the high constitutional and ethical stakes involved in tackling health misinformation through speech regulation. Our findings suggest that solutions focused on regulating speech are likely to encounter significant constraints, as policymakers grasp with the limitations imposed by freedom of expression and ethical considerations. Solutions focused on empowering individuals – such as media literacy initiatives, fact-checking or credibility labels – are one way to avoid such hurdles.

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Section: The Ethics Of Health Misinformation Regulationmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: The Ethics Of Health Misinformation Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health misinformation and freedom of expression: considerations for policymakers

Marecos

Shattock

Bartlett

et al. 2023

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“…The terrain of social values is complex and conflicting. For this reason, Stroud (2019) argues that tackling the phenomenon of false news also depends on the analysis of pragmatism from a prism that takes into account ethical, moral, and social issues.…”

Section: Democracy and Ethics In The Pragmatic Conception And Its Rel...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has the function of moderating and directing impulses, considering the consequences they entail. The reason would be the individual's ability to predict and compare and is linked to an agent's socialised or communal reactions to the virtues or vices it perceives in the actions of others (Stroud, 2019).…”

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“…Our research aimed to analyse such discourses conveyed from the perspective of communication theories that rely on pragmatist logic and critical mathematics education. The theoretical analysis fell on three prisms -Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatic logic on the concept of belief fixation (Alzamora & Andrade, 2019); the ethical challenge of dealing with fake news (Stroud, 2019); and critical mathematics education as a tool to strengthen democracy (Skovsmose & Valero, 2001) -which will be discussed later. Our starting point, however, will be the video presentations and initial mathematical analysis of the disclosed content.…”

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Fake News Phenomenon: Formation of Beliefs under Pragmatic Optics and Mathematical Education

Souza

Araújo

2022

Acta Sci.

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Background: Few studies in mathematics education have been looking at the new dynamics of communication with focus on the analysis of speeches propagated by false news. This social phenomenon is worrying: news that uses mathematical arguments to guide, shape, and reflect public opinion and popular thinking based on misleading information. Objectives: The aim of this investigation was to understand the role of mathematics education in the process of strengthening democracy. Data collection and analysis: A video published on a YouTube channel, in which mathematical arguments are used to convince public opinion about a certain point of view, was the object of the study whose result is presented in this paper. Design: With theoretical-methodological procedures that are based on the pragmatic theory of fixation of beliefs and on the verification of the mathematical content, the analysis adopted a qualitative approach. Setting and Participants: This is a study about a video considered false by news agencies, aired by a famous Brazilian journalist. Results: The study of fake news and desinformation scenario has allowed us to observe that mathematical speeches linked to the ideology of mathematical certainty are responsible for the establishment of beliefs and the formation of opinions by authority and tenacity methods. Conclusions: We conclude that mathematical models and mathematical discourses used in virtual communication environments can be responsible for camouflaging the human factor in political decisions and obscuring the visibility of ethical and morality variables.

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Looking for Constructive Journalism Principles in Arab Journalism Codes of Ethics: A Study on UAE, KSA, and Qatar

Almahmoud,

Córdoba

2024

Springer Handbooks of Political Science and International Relations

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Pragmatist Media Ethics and the Challenges of Fake News

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Health misinformation and freedom of expression: considerations for policymakers

Health misinformation and freedom of expression: considerations for policymakers

Fake News Phenomenon: Formation of Beliefs under Pragmatic Optics and Mathematical Education

Looking for Constructive Journalism Principles in Arab Journalism Codes of Ethics: A Study on UAE, KSA, and Qatar

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