What ethical challenges arise when the media uses images of the dead?
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May2022 Title 6: The Media, images of death & #MyLastShot: How can the boundaries of acceptable photographic investigations allow artists to balance the 'need to see' with the need to 'start conversations'?
Brendan P. Foht on politically correcting science and scientifically correcting politics
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May2022 Titles 6: The 'Galilean personality', critical attitude & academic freedoms: how taking an activist stance can help map out the boundaries for acceptable scientific investigations & a just system of doing science...
What does the evidence tell us about how to engage with people we disagree with? Mark Horne and artist Matt Kemp find out.
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May2021 Title 6: Self-affirmation, the backfire effect & the evidential approach to knowledge: how to personal biases can be transformed over time...quietly.
What if your attachment to being a "good" person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person?
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May2021 Title 6: Bounded rationality, mental shortcuts & challenging the idea of being 'good': when unconscious biases lead us into the mistake of ;red zone defensiveness'.
Frontex maps are the primary source of media maps about (illegal, irregular) migration into Europe. However, these use aggressive symbolism (such as red arrows) and can confirm bias against migrants. Other mapping options are available, but perhaps the best solution to prevent bias confirmation is to use other types of information and graphics.
ToKTutor's insight:
May2021 Title 3 & 6: From migration maps to bar charts: how the 'innocent' labelling maps encapsulates subtle forms of bias which can and should be avoided...
Agenda 21, as it's currently presented in social media on accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, also attacks Universal Basic Income and purports people will be segregated into human settlement zones (a favorite of dystopian teenage fiction).And there'd be no fossil fuels, a fact tha
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May2021 Title 6: All-encompassing conspiracy theories, paranoia & fear: TWE is avoiding the negative side of bias a basis for understanding its more positive role in the world of knowledge?
As we sit here over six months after the initial lockdown provoked by COVID-19, the United States has moved out of a brief period of national unity into distressingly predictable and bitter partisan division.
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May2021 Title 6: Myside bias, 'knowledge'projection' & testable vs distal beliefs: what happens when convictions are allowed to drive the pursuit of knowledge...
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For too long the tired tropes of the male gaze in film and literature have focused on girls' sexual precociousness. Girlhood culture deserves to be represented more authentically.
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May2021 Title 6: 'Leon', the male gaze & authentic representations: how negative gender bias can be reoriented to create more positive representations in our stories...
From Nazi medicine to GM babies, unethical research has a deeply problematic history. But what should we do when the results of these studies could offer useful scientific insight?
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May2022 Title 6: Pernkopf's 'Anatomy', HeLa cells & Tuskagee: defining the boundaries of acceptable medical investigation is made harder when definitions of 'ethical' & 'unethical' constantly shift...
More cases coming soon! Case studies produced by the Media Ethics Initiative remain the intellectual property of the Media Ethics Initiative and the University of Texas at Austin. They can be used in unmodified PDF form without permission for classroom use. For use in publications such as textbooks and other works, please contact the Media…
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May2022 Title 6: Various articles exploring case studies connected to the Arts, ethically acceptable (or unacceptable) artistic investigations & the boundaries of the creative imagination...
The range of public monuments removed or vandalized has expanded to historic figures criticized as racist or oppressive, from Christopher Columbus to George Washington
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May2021 Title 6: Statues, slavery & power politics: how 'positive bias' is battling' 'negative bias' in the urge to tell a nation's history...
We need history, and the lack of knowledge brings ignorance to the monuments put here in remembrance. The good news is the new monuments that will exude into the history books and our children's children to see our history. Good video, and article.
Set Theory and the Axiom of Choice - Proof by Induction - Proof by Contradiction - Gödel and Unprovable Theorem | An interactive textbook
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May2021 Title 6: Axioms, theorems & proofs: TWE is the assumption that math axioms are true a form of 'positive bias' in the production of math knowledge?
I’ve spent many years referencing Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type of thinking is an official bias but I can’t recall the name or details. It’s been an…
ToKTutor's insight:
May2021 Title 6: From information overload to acting fast: biases aren't positive or negative in themselves; they're 'useful in the right contexts, harmful in others'...
Claire Klingenberg looks back over the history of skepticism around the world, tracing its roots from the oldest skeptical group to the first skeptical celebrity.
ToKTutor's insight:
May2021 Title 6: Three types of skepticism & the evolution of a movement: a main goal of critical questioning is to avoid the negative impact of bias...
I believe there is beauty in hearing the voices of people who haven't been heard...
ToKTutor's insight:
May2021 Title 6: 'The Jerome Project', beauty & truth telling: how the Arts use positive bias to help represent & remember the unseen people from the past & in the present...
Western religions have a specific image of the divine. For example, God is not only a person but also seems to have gender—and it is always masculine. Some are now challenging this traditional notion of God as male. What insights can be learned from feminine theology?
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May2021 Title 6: Feminine Theology, Abrahamic Religions & the concept of God: breaking through the gender bias in our visions of the divine.
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