Systematic Epistemic Rights Violations in the Media: A Brexit Case Study
Systematic Epistemic Rights Violations in the Media: A Brexit Case Study
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媒体中系统性的认知权侵犯：英国脱欧案例研究
DOI：
10.1080/02691728.2018.1440022
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Lani Watson
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作者：
Lani Watson
摘要《欧洲法官向非法移民敞开闸门》(《太阳报》，2016年6月8日)、《让150万土耳其人进入英国的阴谋激怒》(《每日邮报》，2016年6月13日)、《欧洲罪犯在英国自由生活》(《每日电讯报》，2016年6月7日)。这些头条新闻都出现在2016年6月23日英国就欧盟成员国身份举行公投的前几周。他们就欧盟移民在英国的性质、规模和影响发出了一个严酷而统一的信息。不可否认，目前公众对欧盟移民的关注与媒体对这一话题的关注之间存在相关性。我认为，媒体积极塑造其受众关于欧盟移民的信念，并通过传播错误信息以及对准确信息的偏见和隐瞒来做到这一点，也是压倒性的似是而非。因此，在英国退欧前的竞选活动中，媒体对欧盟移民信息的处理提供了一个令人信服的例证，说明了对认知权的系统性侵犯。在本文中，我概述了认知权和侵犯认知权的性质，并展示了英国退欧前媒体报道中普遍存在的此类侵犯行为。这为在国家和国际媒体上调查侵犯认识权的行为提供了一个案例研究；这是当代认识论关注的一个主题。
Abstract ‘Euro judges “open floodgates to illegals”’ (The Sun, 8 June 2016), ‘Fury over plot to let 1.5M Turks enter Britain’ (Daily Mail, 13 June 2016), ‘European criminals free to live in Britain’ (Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2016). These headlines all appeared in the weeks immediately prior to the UK referendum on EU membership, held on 23 June 2016. They present a stark and unified message regarding the nature, scale and impact of EU immigration in the UK It is hard to deny that a correlation exists between public concern with EU immigration at this time and media attention on the topic. That the media actively shaped the beliefs of its audience, regarding EU immigration, and that it did so through the propagation of misinformation and in the biasing and concealment of accurate information is also, I argue, overwhelmingly plausible. As such, the media handling of information concerning EU immigration during pre-Brexit campaigning provides a compelling illustration of the systematic violation of epistemic rights. In this paper, I outline the nature of epistemic rights and epistemic rights violations and demonstrate the widespread perpetration of such violations in pre-Brexit media coverage. This provides a case study for the investigation of epistemic rights violations across national and international media; a topic of central concern for contemporary epistemology.