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Global Voices Online » Guyana: Outrage at Police Torture Allegations
"The Kaieteur News, one of Guyana's daily newspapers, is notorious for publishing explicit front-page photographs of crime scenes and murder victims, an editorial policy that has roused controversy in the past. But the gruesome photo and accompanying report that led the paper's edition of Saturday 31 October, 2009, triggered widespread outrage not at the Kaieteur News editors but at the Guyana Police Force:"
PDNPulse: VII Photo Panel: Why Photography Still Matters
VII Photo Panel: Why Photography Still Matters
Long, long ago, when picture magazines arrived in millions of homes once a week, and people still read newspapers, a news photo could have an immediate impact on public opinion. Images of fire hoses turned on men and women wanting to exercise their right to vote mobilized thousands of voter registration volunteers. An image of a naked girl running down a road to flee a napalm bombing curdled public opinion about an already unpopular war. But in today’s fractured media, with so few publications showing serious photography, can a photo really make a difference?
The answer, according to participants in the panel discussion held last night at the VII Photo agency office, is yes. Each panelist—a Congressional aide, a human rights activist and a photojournalist—gave examples of the surprising and sometimes unexpected ways that photos of human rights issues have moved individuals to take action.
UIC, Dept. of Psychiatry
The Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing
Project-Home
From humanitarian law to action in behalf of humanity
Humanitarian law is a powerful legal and moral advance. However, enforcement mechanisms are limited and individuals and groups often do not follow these laws. Even if there were better enforcement mechanisms, upholding the law would primarily be dependent on people caring about other people and their welfare. For individuals, whether an average person or a leader, and for whole groups to behave according to humanitarian law, and to be active bystanders who take action to protect others, even more importantly than knowing the law, they have to adopt as their own the values on which it is based and the principles it embodies. They have to value human beings and their welfare. They also have to be sufficiently free of absorption in their own needs and concern with their own well-being that they will notice and respond to others’ pain and suffering. This is a matter of social conditions, culture and individual characteristics.
Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers
Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers
Non-profits, NGOs and corporations are looking for storytellers, and former newspaper photographers are answering the call.
Who is the subaltern and what is testimonio?
History is not a single, linear truth, but rather a collage of memories, experiences and interpretations. It is the job of the historian to explore the past from many perspectives and to consider the complexities that have not only triggered an historical episode but have also shaped its memory.
In Latin American studies one of the ways that the need for multiplicity of perspectives has manifested itself is Subaltern Studies. Subalterns are groups of people who exist outside of a society’s hegemonic system, often because of poverty or ethnic discrimination (Rodriguez, "From Representation to Recognition" The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, 5 ). Traditionally, they have been misrepresented, if not excluded altogether from academic research and study, which is conducted by intellectuals who themselves are generally a part of the dominant hegemonic system (Latin American Subaltern Studies Group 119).
Testimonio
Testimonio
On the Politics of Truth
John Beverley
Testimonio
$20.00 Paper
ISBN: 0-8166-2841-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2841-4
$58.50 Cloth
ISBN: 0-8166-2840-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2840-7
A revealing perspective on the controversial literature of witnessing.
These four germinal essays by John Beverley sparked the widespread discussion and debate surrounding testimonio—the socially and politically charged Latin American narrative of witnessing—that culminated with David Stoll’s highly publicized attack on Rigoberta Menchú’s celebrated testimonial text. Challenging Hardt and Negri’s Empire, Beverley’s extensive new introduction examines the broader historical, political, and ethical issues that this literature raises, tracing the development of testimonio from its emergence in the Cold War era to the rise of a globalized economy and U.S. political hegemony.
Photo Business News & Forum: Getty Images Splitting Sales With Celebrity Subjects on the "DL"
Getty Images Splitting Sales With Celebrity Subjects on the "DL"
It seems that Getty Images may be playing fast and loose with the ethics of photojournalism these days. Getty is sharing in the sales of images of certain celebrities with the celebrities themselves, for example, in a little-known maneuver where they just happen to be in the right place at the right tim to catch a celebrity doing something, paparazzi style. They are, unfortunately, doing this on the down-low, and that's where the ethical problem comes in.
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval
The hard truth about the future of journalism is that nobody knows for sure what will happen; the current system is so brittle, and the alternatives are so speculative, that there’s no hope for a simple and orderly transition from State A to State B. Chaos is our lot; the best we can do is identify the various forces at work shaping various possible futures. Two of the most important are the changing natures of the public, and of subsidy.
FOTO8 - The End of Newspapers
The End of Newspapers
31 Mar 2009
The eventual demise of the U.S. print newspaper has seemed inevitable since the emergence of the web in the mid 90s, but the events of recent months have confirmed just how dire the situation is, and suggest that the end may be very near. What hasn’t been discussed very much is the impact this will have on photojournalism.
The Albuquerque Tribune closed a year ago, The Rocky Mountain News a month ago, and last week the Seattle Post-Intelligencer moved to an all-web version . In these cases and many others, jobs have been lost, and communities have lost a mirror on themselves and an advocate. Gannett and Newhouse papers are requiring employees to take an unpaid furlough, and The New York Times has announced salary cuts and lay offs. Sadly, none of these measures are solutions- they are all just stop gaps to slow things down until a “new business model” can be found that will make online news profitable.
FORA.tv - Spotlighting Human Rights: Digital Photography and Video
Spotlighting Human Rights: Digital Photography and Video
University of California: Berkeley
Eco-Libris : Moving Towards Sustainable Reading!: 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President.
Moral Clarity
Advance Praise for Moral Clarity
"It is a bracing and exhilirating experience to read Susan Neiman's Moral Clarity. Not only does she argue and illustrate the case for moral clarity; in doing so she exemplifies the moral courage and imagination we so dearly need. This is a necessary book for our times."
Breyten Breytenbach
"This is a tour de force: a witty, profound and powerful successor to her breakthrough book, Evil in Modern Thought. Against all the postmodernist caricatures and atheist rants, Susan Neiman gives us a flesh-and-blood Enlightment - a living culture of vivid debate about justice, heroism, and our moral nature, about the ends and means of reverence no less than of reason."
Todd Gitlin
Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten
Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten
When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year
By Julie Hollar
The wars that have wracked the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1996, killing well over 5 million people (International Rescue Committee, 1/08) in what may be the deadliest conflict since World War II, are officially over. A peace agreement was signed in 2002, and general elections were held in 2006.
But conflict and the humanitarian crisis continue. The most recent survey (IRC, 1/08) estimated that 45,000 people are dying each month from conflict-related causes (primarily hunger and disease), nearly the same shocking rate as during the war itself. And with the recent flare-up of violence in Congo’s volatile east, things don’t seem to be getting any better.
To put the death rate in perspective, at the peak of the Darfur crisis, the conflict-related death rate there was less than a third of the Congo’s, and by 2005 it had dropped to less than 4,000 per month (CRED, 5/26/05). The United Nations has estimated some 300,000 may have died in total as a result of the years of conflict in Darfur (CRED, 4/24/08, SSRC.org, 3/25/09); the same number die from the Congo conflict every six and a half months.
And yet, in the New York Times, which covers the Congo more than most U.S. outlets, Darfur has consistently received more coverage since it emerged as a media story in 2004 (Extra!, 1–2/08). The Times gave Darfur nearly four times the coverage it gave the Congo in 2006, while Congolese were dying of war-related causes at nearly 10 times the rate of those in Darfur.
ICC - Legal Tools: What are the ICC Legal Tools?
What are the ICC Legal Tools?
The Legal Tools have been developed at the Office of the Prosecutor. They equip users with legal information, commentaries and an application to work more effectively with core international crimes cases (involving war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide). The Tools serve as an electronic library on international criminal law and justice. They comprise at present over 40,000 documents in several databases (the "Legal Tools Database"), together with four legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers with expertise in international criminal law and justice: the Case Matrix, the Elements Commentary, the Proceedings Commentary and the Means of Proof Document. Text in these tools or in the Legal Tools Database does not necessarily represent views of the ICC, any of its Organs or any participant in proceedings before the ICC or any of the ICC States Parties.
MediaShift . Issue Advocacy on the Internet, Part 1 | PBS
The Internet has been alternately characterized as participatory, conversational, and collaborative. By empowering its users to create (not just consume) content, it is by design a more democratic medium than any other. There has been plenty of discussion about how, by giving everyone a public voice, the Internet is upending conventional power dynamics and enabling a new generation of opinion leaders. These new voices will not be judged by the pomp of their credentials, but by the "character of their content." What's more remarkable, however, is the sheer volume of voices that arise as a result of this medium and how, when enough of them are in unison, they can successfully bring about social change.
This post is an outline of some of the opportunities and challenges facing communicators that seek to tap the Web's grassroots potential. I'll publish a second part in a couple weeks that will spotlight some examples of organizations and individuals who are doing this particularly well. In the meantime, please feel free to e-mail me if you'd like to bring my attention to a specific campaign. Also, check out Fenton Communications' May 5 panel on "Social Media for Social Change" as well as Mike Rosen-Molina's MediaShift post, How Charities Harness Social Media to Raise Awareness, Money.
Martha Nussbaum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics.
Nussbaum is currently Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. She also holds Associate appointments in Classics and Political Science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown where she held the rank of university professor.
The Philosophy of Love - The New York Times
UPHEAVALS OF THOUGHT
The Intelligence of Emotions.
By Martha C. Nussbaum.
751 pp. New York:
Cambridge University Press. $39.95.
THERE was a time, not long ago, when academic philosophers paid scant attention to matters of the heart. All that has suddenly changed. Who would have predicted during the hangover of logical positivism that the love of wisdom would morph into wisdom about love? Among figures as diverse as Jonathan Lear, Alexander Nehamas and now Martha C. Nussbaum, a warm philosophy is rising up, imaginatively and feelingly embracing the breadth of human experience. Nussbaum's ''Upheavals of Thought'' marks a seismic shift away from the values of ''coolness,'' detached reason and disciplinary compartmentalization.
''Upheavals of Thought'' is a staggering feat of synthesis, reflecting not only Nussbaum's wide-ranging expertise in philosophy, law, divinity, classics, Asian studies and gender studies but recent developments in cognitive psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis as well. She shows herself an impassioned literary and musical critic, too, and credits the arts for our most enlightening emotional instruction. Marcel Proust, whom she considers ''in some ways the most profound object-relations psychoanalyst of all,'' provides her title, in his observation that love ''produces real geological upheavals of thought.'' Her central claim is that emotions like love and grief, far from irrational distractions, are ''intelligent responses to the perception of value.'' They proceed from judgments we make concerning objects and people that are beyond our control but important to our flourishing, and as such are ''part and parcel of the system of ethical reasoning.''
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