This article reviews debates about the application of Amartya Sen's capabilities theory to the understanding and regulation of media and communications. It argues that Sen's insistence on the complexity of ethical reasoning, and the underlying complexity of “the good,” makes the capabilities approach the most suitable general approach for considering what media justice is. In particular, the advantages of Sen's approach compared with Martha Nussbaum's specification of particular human capabilities are discussed. Possible supplements of capabilities thinking by the concept of recognition are also discussed, and their limits noted.

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什么能力？为传播研究发展森的道德理论

本文回顾了关于将 Amartya Sen 的能力理论应用于媒体和传播的理解和监管的辩论。它认为，森坚持伦理推理的复杂性，以及“善”的潜在复杂性，使能力方法成为考虑媒体正义的最合适的一般方法。特别地，讨论了与 Martha Nussbaum 对特定人类能力的规范相比，Sen 的方法的优势。还讨论了通过识别概念对能力思考的可能补充，并指出了它们的局限性。