A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
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A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.
Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE. -
A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.
Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE.I know people do this kind of work, but I don't know how its done, nor if anyone is doing it now in the fast moving situation we are in. But it would be great to see differences in numbers of personal stories given, space given, the language used to refer to the deaths, the frequency of mentions, etc. etc. etc.
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A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.
Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE.@pjw Would this be relevant?
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2339-judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability -
A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.
Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE.Interesting. I dont have time but boosted in hope you'll get some ideas.
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@pjw Would this be relevant?
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2339-judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability@johank76 This is a nice essay that kind of captures the thing I'm thinking/writing about, but I'd like to find some hard data to support the general idea (which I think they are roughly correct about)
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@pjw Would this be relevant?
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2339-judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability@pjw And *here* is the book https://archive.org/details/framesofwarwheni0000butl/page/n7/mode/1up
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@johank76 This is a nice essay that kind of captures the thing I'm thinking/writing about, but I'd like to find some hard data to support the general idea (which I think they are roughly correct about)
@pjw Ok. Not my field, but I would assume there would be e.g. media studies using quant or qual methods to investigate e.g. how news outlets and journalists assess the newsworthiness of deaths in places faraway based on e.g. perceived cultural distance.
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A question for researchers - boosts are *much* appreciated!
tl;dr: I'm trying to find (or create, if need be) methods for approximating the moral weight given to different deaths in the current war with Iran.
Longer post:
This week I planned to return to work after a week off. But now I can't really focus because of frequent missile sirens. However, before the war started, I had already began work on a paper for which I thought this might be a good time to try to get some 'back of the napkin' (or better!) data which can help to illustrate the phenomenon I am trying to give a philosophical analysis of.
What I'm looking for is differences, both quantifiable and qualitative, in the ways that different deaths are covered in the western media. For example: I'd love to somehow gather the stories and ways that the school bombing in Minab (Iran) and those poor girls' deaths is being talked vs. Israeli citizens vs. American soldiers vs. the migrant worker death in UAE.@pjw the old cynical rule of thumb in US journalism coverage used to something like 1 American life=
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