http://hdl.handle.net/10092/567 2013-04-16T18:15:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4532 Title: "Can’t talk now, mate": New Zealand news media and the invisible Afghan war Authors: Matheson, D. Editors: R. Keeble and J. Mair 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3298 Title: Queer, Queerer, Queerest? Feminisms, Heterosexualities and Queer Theory Authors: Du Plessis, R. Editors: Alice, L.; Star, L. 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/736 Title: "The Heart That Cannot Bear...the Other": Reading Mengzi on the Goodness of Human Nature Authors: Wu, X. Editors: Santangelo, P.; Middendorf, U. Abstract: This paper will discuss the ancient Chinese thinker Mengzi’s 孟子 (ca. 390-ca. 305 B.C.) thought of human nature. But let us first quote from an increasingly influential modern French thinker: Emmanuel Levinas. The purpose of this citation is two-fold: on the one hand, it is an attempt to form a potentially constructive dialogue between what we will say about Mengzi in this paper and what Levinas has said about man as being inescapably responsible for the other; on the other hand, this citation should also serve to situate our discussion in wider philosophical contexts. We hope thus we may be able, at least in an implicit manner, to bring closer two thoughts or two intellectual traditions, viz., Chinese and European, and also to show how Mengzi’s thought of human nature, as it is read and interpreted in this paper, can go beyond the borders of Chinese thought and language, and take on more universal significance. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/698 Title: Truth in a War Zone: The Role of Warblogs in Iraq Authors: Matheson, D.; Allan, S. Editors: Maltby, S. and Keeble, R. Abstract: This chapter proposes to examine the emergent forms and practices of blogging as an augmentation of – and at times challenge to – war reporting. As will soon become apparent, however, we have not attempted the difficult task of comprehensively surveying the multiplicity of warblogs concerned with the invasion and its aftermath. Rather, we have chosen to investigate a small number, grouping them into three broad categories: warblogs associated with major news organizations; warblogs produced by freelance or ‘sojo’ reporters, as well as ‘personal’ or ‘amateur’ journalists; and warblogs posted by Iraqi citizens. In the course of our analysis, we draw upon insights provided by bloggers themselves, both from interviews conducted by ourselves as well as from other sources. We suggest that these writers valued the use of blogging as journalism – characterized as it is by informality, subjectivity and eyewitness experience – for the ways in which it cuts across the fundamentals of ostensibly impartial news reporting. In this chapter’s evaluation of warblogging’s relative strengths and limitations, then, care will be taken to discern the extent to which it represents a challenge to certain longstanding tenets of war reporting. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z