Feeling responsible: Emotion and practical ethics in conflict journalism

Stupart, Richard ORCID: 0000-0002-5936-2730 (2021) Feeling responsible: Emotion and practical ethics in conflict journalism. MEDIA WAR AND CONFLICT, 14 (3). pp. 268-281.

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Abstract

<jats:p>This article examines the role of emotion in the practices of journalists reporting on conflict and its effects in South Sudan, based on a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations of the working routines of journalists from Nairobi, Kampala and Juba. Contrary to perceptions of emotion as an akratic failure to reason in a rational, detached manner, obligations felt to people and situations can be understood as rational, information-bearing guides to action, directing journalists to consider personal ethical norms that may sit in tension with the norms of their professional roles as they understand them. The presence of such feelings in the case of journalists committed to a norm of emotional detachment in their work points to the moral incoherence of norms of detachment in (at least) journalism of this type.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	affect, attachment, emotion, journalism, journalism practice, objectivity, South Sudan
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2023 10:11
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2023 10:11
DOI:	10.1177/17506352211013461
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170821