Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication最新文献

{"title":"Conciliatory aggression and the rhetoric of public apologies: A rhetorical analysis","authors":"Gary McCarron","doi":"10.1386/ejpc_00006_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00006_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article provides a rhetorical analysis of a public apology that was issued by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh in response to criticism of on-air comments that he made in February 2012. I argue that Limbaugh deployed his apology as a plea for moral\u0000 exoneration, not as a formal admission of misconduct. Hence his apology was meant to absolve Limbaugh from blame by offsetting acknowledgements of wrongdoing (along with expressions of remorse) with an appeal to truth as a force for exculpation.","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49509573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review","authors":"A. Borda","doi":"10.1386/ejpc_00007_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00007_5","url":null,"abstract":"International criminal tribunals (ICTs) can, and are often expected to, perform a multitude of potentially contradictory functions. One of the more simultaneously celebrated and derided functions is that of writing the histories of the conflicts they adjudicate. As Zammit Borda aptly illustrates in his perceptive and refreshingly pragmatic new book, the possibility of ICTs to write authoritative and universally accepted histories of armed conflict and atrocity was one of the main justifications given by prosecutors at the Nuremberg Tribunal for the very establishment of the first ICT. Since then, many legal scholars and practitioners have questioned the wisdom and practicality of an ICT attempting to write an accurate history of a complex conflict. In Histories Written by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Developing a Responsible History Framework, Zammit Borda positions himself in between these two extremes and argues for a need to recognize that ICTs do, in fact, write histories as part of their judgments and that they must do so responsibly while acknowledging the limitations of their ability to write academically rigorous histories. Zammit Borda begins this volume with an analysis of this theoretical debate on whether ICTs should write historical narratives (Ch 2). He divides the theories into three broad camps: the restrictive camp arguing that ICTs should stick to adjudicating criminal liability,1 the expansive camp arguing that ICTs should focus on writing history potentially at the expense of other goals,2 and a moderate camp arguing that truth and justice must inevitably be rendered together in a responsible manner.3 In first setting out a strict dichotomy between restrictive and expansive approaches, Zammit Borda risks creating strawmen out of complex theories. However, he acknowledges this risk, and his actual analysis of the theories is nuanced and sees pros and cons in both camps. Although Zammit Borda does not lay out his own theory until Chapter 7, it quickly becomes clear in this theoretical discussion that he finds the moderate camp the most persuasive. An important and eminently rational aspect of this moderate view that Zammit Borda adopts is that ICTs must understand and acknowledge their limitations in telling full historical narratives. In Chapters 3 through 6, he analyses what he sees as the most relevant and understudied of these limitations. He begins with a novel and intriguing analysis of how the structure and process of","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44227940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Freedom of expression in multicultural societies: Political cartooning in Europe in the modern and postmodern eras","authors":"Nives Rumenjak","doi":"10.1386/ejpc_00005_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00005_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At the intersection of modern cultural and political history, security studies and debates about freedom of expression and international human-rights law, this article aims to contribute to a better understanding of political cartooning and its implications in multicultural\u0000 societies of Europe, which have shifted in a geographical, cultural, normative, communicational, political and many other respects through the last two centuries. Through comparison of the Serbian cartoons from late nineteenth-century Croatia and the recent Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad,\u0000 the article reveals that both modern and postmodern European cartoons have been centred around equally discriminatory narratives: a 'clash of civilizations' and 'racialization of religion'. Since open racial stereotyping in cartoons became illegal in the postmodern international regulations,\u0000 traditional discriminatory practices of cartooning have shifted towards subtle, 'liquid' racism. This decodes some of the twelve Danish cartoons as ambiguous strategies of racialization of Muslim immigrants in Europe (as 'terrorists' and 'others') but also as hate speech which is illegal in\u0000 the European Union, and member states of the Council of Europe. The author concludes that the most current European and international regulations of hate speech, whether concerning offline media or online media, actually protect free speech. While a truly clear-cut regulation of liquid racism\u0000 might remain problematic in Europe (and the world) due to the lack of a universally accepted definition of hate speech, neither strict legal regulations nor different definitions of hate speech could diminish the role of political cartooning as a viable free speech platform in the multicultural\u0000 landscape of Europe. Ultimately, what diminishes its viability is the enduring lack of diversity in the creation of visual satire, which could and should reflect the multicultural reality of communities, politics and societies in Europe.","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46241396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding media in the context of object-oriented ontology","authors":"Sergey Klyagin, I. Antonova","doi":"10.1386/ejpc_00002_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00002_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the theoretical conditions of studying media considered as a specific type of phenomenon, a 'medium phenomenon', to use a philosophical term. The purpose of this study is to examine and evaluate the interpretations of the medium phenomenon in\u0000 the context of object-oriented ontology, with the authors drawing on the latest philosophical theories and explaining other scholars' reasons for investigating media in particular ways. As part of this inquiry, the authors aim at clarifying the content of the medium phenomenon whilst explaining\u0000 the reasons for investigating the medium from specific positions in the context of the latest philosophical theories. The authors conclude their inquiry by offering the examination and evaluation of the potential of object-oriented ontologies aimed at characterizing the medium as a type of\u0000 social object. As the medium's distinctive features are revealed, the authors suggest that interrogating it further is important for improving our understanding of social processes and creating new strategies and technologies of media usage.","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46604167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"J. Siebers","doi":"10.1386/ejpc_00001_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc_00001_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44474662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"J. Siebers","doi":"10.1386/ejpc.10.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.10.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44281061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political memes in the 2018 presidential campaigns in Russia: Dialogue and conflict","authors":"N. Lukianova, Maria A. Shteynman, Elena Fell","doi":"10.1386/EJPC.10.1.71_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EJPC.10.1.71_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/EJPC.10.1.71_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48970082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Welcome to the metamodel: A reply to Pablé","authors":"Robert T. Craig","doi":"10.1386/EJPC.10.1.101_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EJPC.10.1.101_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44944352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"And now I become its mouth: On Arthur Schopenhauer and weird ventriloquism","authors":"B. Zager","doi":"10.1386/EJPC.10.1.55_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/EJPC.10.1.55_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44263022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviews","authors":"Ragnar van der Merwe, Carlos M. Roos","doi":"10.1386/ejpc.10.1.109_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.10.1.109_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40280,"journal":{"name":"Empedocles-European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47331158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}