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  • On Empathy

    • Authors: Maria Baghramian (2019)

  • This special issue arose from the 2018 competition for the Robert Papazian Essay Prize in Ethics and Political Philosophy where the theme was empathy, with a special focus on its moral, political, epistemic and social roles and significance...
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  • Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information

    • Authors: Xuan Mei (2019)

  • This impressive book by Ruth Millikan extends her bold and innovative theoretical approach to the question, ‘How is cognition possible?’, weaving together ideas from natural ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language and information...
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  • Measuring intercultural/international outgroup favoritism: comparing two measures of cultural cringe

    • Authors: Yadong Ji; Benjamin R. Bates (2020)

  • Outgroup favoritism influences cross-group communication. At the intercultural/international level, one’s outgroup favoritism affects one’s communication with members of other cultures. However, our ability to measure outgroup favoritism at the intercultural/ international level is limited. This paper examined the interrelations between and relative validity of two measures of outgroup favoritism (i.e. cultural cringe, [Feather, N. T. (1993). Devaluing achievement within a culture: Measuring the cultural cringe. Australian Journal of Psychology, 45(3), 182–188. doi:10.1080/00049539308259137] and [Hu, Y., & Chen, G. M. (2016). The impact of cultural cringe on consumer behavior in China. China Media Research, 12(4), 75–84]). A sample of 636 Chinese adults completed two questionnaires re...
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  • Scientists as public communicators: individual-and institutional-level motivations and barriers for public communication in Singapore

    • Authors: Shirley S. Ho; Jiemin Looi; Tong Jee Goh (2020)

  • This study identifies the outreach activities that scientists engage in, as well as their perceived motivations and barriers towards such activities. It examines the forms of communication training that Singapore-based scientists have undergone and the types of communication training they would like to receive. Five focus groups were conducted with scientists across scientific disciplines from public universities and research institutes who engaged in direct and mediated outreach activities. Overall, the lack of time and institutional constraints were the main barriers to outreach activities. Their desire to impact public welfare and secure research funds were primary motivators to conduct outreach activities. The participants also expressed interest in communication training in terms...
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  • Abused metaphors in political communication: the case of two presidents

    • Authors: Mansup Heo (2020)

  • While political metaphors play a crucial role in imprinting policies on the public, they can be abused. The present study of the speeches of the most recent two South Korean presidents found that catachreses (abused metaphors) with abhorrent images led to negative reactions. Specifically, the case study of 12 abused tropes and 484 news articles found a pattern of catachresis formation and media responses: (1) senders map policy to an image; (2) the image lacks a cultural or physical correspondence with the policy; (3) a conflict arises between the image and the receivers’ values; (4) the receivers recognize the image as strained and abhorrent; (5) cynical online posts spread, pseudo-events increase, and many adverse news articles are reported. The results were re-validated by comparis...
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  • ‘Panda engagement’ in China’s digital public diplomacy

    • Authors: Zhao Alexandre Huang; Rui Wang (2020)

  • Applying a constructive journalistic paradigm, we examined how the Chinese media digitalized panda diplomacy on Twitter. By analyzing English-language, panda-themed tweets (N = 855) posted by Chinese state-owned media (Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, and CGTN) in 2017, we identified content types and communication engagement practices that contributed to Chinese digital diplomacy. Our findings confirm that the practice of panda engagement online is highly politicized in the context of China’s public diplomacy. Chinese media outlets use Twitter (a) to spread official discourse and views in the diplomatic arena to strengthen the government’s impact and (b) to accrue sympathy capital and increase attractiveness through strategic placement of imagery (e.g. static images, moving gifs, and...