ABSTRACT

This article seeks to “contaminate” an ethics of care with three different but interrelated theoretical interventions: the expansion of the care ethic beyond interpersonal relations, ecofeminism, and feminist political theory. This makes care theoretically resilient: durable enough to have grounded meaning but flexible enough for situational application. This also makes care a primary concept capable of subsuming some aspects of the traditional ethical theories of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. This holds vast implications for journalists as they seek new ways to delineate and articulate their service to democracy in an ever-changing mediascape. Furthermore, this ethic of care engenders media literacy and enables an active public to critically question media content and influence. This theoretical explication is thus not an abstract exercise but intentionally focused to aid the difficult work of worldmaking.

摘要

本文试图通过三种不同但相互关联的理论干预来“污染”关怀伦理：超越人际关系、生态女性主义和女权主义政治理论的关怀伦理。这使得护理理论上具有弹性：足够耐用以具有扎实的意义，但足够灵活以适应情境应用。这也使得关怀成为能够包含义务论、结果论和美德伦理等传统伦理理论的某些方面的主要概念。这对记者有着巨大的影响，因为他们在不断变化的媒体环境中寻求新的方式来描述和阐明他们对民主的服务。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 此外，这种关怀伦理培养了媒体素养，并使活跃的公众能够批判性地质疑媒体内容和影响力。