Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2021.1885984
José María La Porte, J. Narbona
Abstract In this interview, philosopher Luciano Floridi explains the effects that, in his opinion, the digital revolution is having on our understanding of human nature. Among other things, he proposes that digitalization is contributing to the development of an anthropology in which man is not the center of reality, but just another node in an unlimited set of informational nodes. This revolution has effects also on the way we have access to reality, through the design of patterns that allow us to order the data we obtain from it. Such vision gives rise to an ethics whose perspective is patient-oriented, that is, which places the needs and expectations of the other first. The interview concludes with some practical proposals for some of the challenges posed by technology companies to today's society.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2021.1890164
B. Lucas
Abstract This paper considers some of the theological, legal, canonical and communication issues involved in the relationship between the civil law in Australia and Catholic Church law and practice regarding the seal of the confessional. It does so by comparing two different real life cases and their different outcomes. The different responses to the two scenarios, both politically and in the mass media, were influenced by certain preconceptions, stereotypes and misrepresentations of the Catholic Church's teaching and practice. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse raised the question of what precisely is covered by the seal of confession. It recommended the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to approach the Holy See for clarification. The Royal Commission recommended that the Australian States change the law to remove the seal of confession as an exception to mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. The Holy See response did not accept that proposition. The study concludes with a brief discussion of how the conflict of duty between the demands of the secular civil law on the one hand, and preserving the seal of confession on the other, might be resolved.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2021.1882317
Michael Cook
Abstract In 2019 Cardinal George Pell, an important Vatican official and Australia’s most prominent Catholic cleric, was convicted of sexually abusing two choirboys in the sacristy of the Melbourne cathedral in the late 1990s. There was only one witness, the complainant. Pell spent more than 400 days in jail before he was exonerated in April 2020 after appealing to the High Court. Before, during and after the legal process most of the print and broadcast media were fiercely hostile to the Cardinal. This was due in part to Pell’s forthright personality and to his conservatism on moral issues. But he also represented the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the midst of its crisis over sexual abuse. His public defenders were few. The clergy, by and large, refrained from commenting on the issue.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2021.1885983
Sara Del Bello
Philosophy, more than ever before, is playing an essential part in studying real-life situations that have been affected by revolutionary changes, caused by digital transformations. The so-called ‘onlife’ dimension – described by Luciano Floridi – is key to explaining our condition, where there is no longer a clear boundary between what is digital and what is real. The author emphasizes the importance of a philosophical approach as a conceptual design, keeping in mind the relevance of philosophical questioning and, at the same time, recognizing the critical role of the possible outcomes. Philosophy offers the possibility to understand the context in which we live, making us aware of effective tools to understand our time and its challenges. In other words, we need to rethink our relationship with the digital, starting from an ethical point of view, which can be the bedrock of the philosophy of information. ‘We need philosophy to make sense of the radical changes produced by the digital revolution. And we need philosophy to be practiced at its highest level for the difficulties to be faced are considerable’ (Floridi 2020, 16). This is the starting point of Luciano Floridi’s contribution, dedicated to the philosophical method. In the pages of Pensare l’infosfera. La filosofia come design concettuale [Thinking about the infosphere. Philosophy as conceptual design] the main focus is the practical role that philosophical thought is called to play in everyday life – in a human dimension in which it is difficult to perceive the boundary between reality and the digital realm. This is the meeting point between real and virtual, about which Floridi coined in another work the term onlife. This indicates the specific union between online and offline. Pensare l’infosfera is an essay resulting from The Logic of information. A theory of conceptual Design – part of a tetralogy consisting of other two volumes: The Philosophy of Information and The Ethics of Information. From Pensare l’infosfera emerges the important ability to provide a philosophical foundation to the digital world – a concept which in this case in particular refers to the sphere of information and, more generally, to the contextual presence of that two-part dimension previously mentioned, now constitutive of our relationship to reality. In stressing the need for an ethical foundation on which the philosophy of information can be based, the real elements of value upon which the basic ethical idea is founded are not outlined. Instead, what comes to the fore is an invitation to philosophers to open their eyes to what the contemporary world requires and needs – philosophical support being needed more than ever before.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2021.1884818
Elba Díaz-Cerveró, Rafael Hurtado, María G. Crespo
Abstract The British television series Downton Abbey (directed by Julian Fellowes) could be considered a media phenomenon without precedent. Since its release in 2010 and throughout its six seasons, it reached a global audience in over 220 countries. At a time when the father figure is dissolving, fading, or missing in the content of television series, the worldwide success of Downton Abbey features the image of Lord Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), Earl of Grantham, the father of an aristocratic family in England. This article will analyze paternal image from its ontological and historical roots, considering truth, transcendence and goodness, as well as manifestations of paternal virtues. Given the fact that virtue is not easily measured, the analysis will show that a father's identity can be reflected in a series of virtuous actions, as manifestations of core virtues. These virtues are the basis for a quantitative content analysis of the seven episodes of the first season, through the application of a methodological tool for audiovisual analysis.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-27DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2020.1820882
Fernando Moreno Cea, E. Díaz
This study highlights the need to complement the necessary communication actions with other legal and procedural actions when the institutional confidence and the corporate reputation of an entity ...
本研究强调，当机构信心和企业声誉受到影响时，需要用其他法律和程序行动来补充必要的沟通行动。
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2020.1824581
Gian Luca Gara, J. L. La Porte
Abstract The article explores ways to build trust in a very specific area of internal and external communication: recruitment. At first it explores the links that communication and vulnerability have with the sciences that study the human dimension of organizations. Second, it addresses the functional and personal dimension of processes in relation to the forces of order or dispersion that press every organization on a personal or structural level (centripetal and centrifugal force). Trust presents itself as the ring that unites and harmonizes the creative or destructive power of those forces. It is an essential element that makes it possible to manage the vulnerability of organizations and their limitations on an organizational or human level. The hypothesis being made is that recruitment is an essential element of internal and external communication and has a strategic importance for the future of the organization because the mobility of the labor market, contractual conditions, and reduced turnover times require creating an environment of trust and transparency in a short time. This begins with the selection process and develops throughout the future professional projection of workers within the company.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2020.1820884
M. Canel
Abstract This interview with Professor Steven Van de Walle was framed by the fact that it was conducted during the lockdown caused by COVID-19, a crisis that has shown a globally shared vulnerability and that might be challenging the trustworthiness of governments. The talk starts at a conceptual level, looking at what trust in Public Administration is about. There follows an exploration of the sources of trust. Van de Walle deploys a typology to illustrate how information, rational calculus and emotions might shape a person’s judgement about whether to trust. Based on recent research evidence from cross-country comparative data, he elaborates on the issue of what matters the most for citizens when deciding to trust. He deals with several relevant current debates regarding communication research and practice: the gap between real and perceived performance, the relation to post-truth, the impact of transparency, and the challenge of dealing with distrustful citizens. One major topic is how to measure trust: methods, research designs, available data, and current challenges. He also makes some comparative considerations between trust in Public Administration and trust in other organizations such as the Church and NGOs. The final part of the interview is a reflection about how COVID-19 might be affecting citizens’ trust in government.
对史蒂芬·范德华教授的采访是在COVID-19造成的封锁期间进行的，这场危机显示出全球共同的脆弱性，并可能挑战政府的可信度。讲座从概念层面开始，探讨公共管理中的信任是什么。接下来是对信任来源的探索。Van de Walle运用了一种类型学来说明信息、理性演算和情感如何影响一个人对是否信任的判断。基于最近跨国比较数据的研究证据，他详细阐述了在决定信任时，对公民来说最重要的是什么。他处理了当前关于传播研究和实践的几个相关争论:真实表现和感知表现之间的差距，与后真相的关系，透明度的影响，以及处理不信任公民的挑战。一个主要的话题是如何衡量信任:方法、研究设计、可用数据和当前的挑战。他还对公共行政信任与教会、非政府组织等其他组织的信任进行了比较思考。采访的最后一部分是关于COVID-19如何影响公民对政府的信任的思考。
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2020.1820883
G. Magalháes
Abstract This article aims to delve into the criteria of divine justice, based on the Gospels, and also investigates what relationships they can maintain with human justice, in force in society. Ten principles are proposed that would help to explain the way in which God judges men and, at the same time, an analysis is made as to what extent these principles can or cannot be found in the legal logic of Western societies. Philosophical, literary and cinematographic works are used to study this complex relationship between human and divine justice.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2020.1820881
Alberto Gil, G. Gili
Abstract The role of the institutional communicator in the Church today has a special relevance derived from the credibility crisis suffered by this institution. A greatly increased awareness to this theme leads to the discovery of profound and essential dimensions of this role, which are discussed in this article. The focus is on the credibility of the communicator, who, on one hand is called to take full responsibility for what he says, but on the other hand speaks in the name of and through a collective subject—the Church or one of its specific constituent parts—that doesn’t always receive much appreciation from its numerous audiences; it is actually often perceived to be “biased” as an institution, it is widely opposed and criticized. An in-depth analysis regarding the role of credibility from a sociological point of view is illustrated by the application of the three roles identified by Erving Goffman—animator, author and principal—to the figure of the institutional communicator, underlining his responsibilities as communication co-leader. A comparison with the concept of translator as a mediator illuminates other characteristics of the communicator, and functions as a basis to comment on some of the virtues (both personal and professional), which he must possess, enhancing both his credibility and efficiency. The application of the concept of creative fidelity (fidélité créatrice) from the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel, together with the interrelation between comprehension and exposition in a comprehensible manner (hermeneutics and creativity), highlights the necessity of reconsidering the importance of communication and of the communicator within the decision-making process.
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