Research Question:
Why is it acceptable to
record public acts of
violence?
Conceptual Category:
Moral obligation to
help
Source #1
(full citation):
Singer- Drowning Child
http://www.utilitarian.net/sin
ger/by/199704--.htm
No, the students reply, the
fact that others are not
doing what they ought to do
is no reason why I should
not do what I ought to do.”
(Singer, 1997).
Source #2
(full citation):
"'Distant Witness':
Social Media's
'Journalism
Revolution'." Talk of
the Nation 31 Jan.
2013. Opposing
Viewpoints in
Context. Web. 13
Apr. 2015.
Source #3
(full citation):
Source #4
(full citation):
Be aware to care
Garcia, S. M.,
Weaver, K.,
Moskowitz, G. B., &
Darley, J. M.
(2002). Crowded
minds: The implicit
bystander
effect. Journal of
Personality and
Social Psychology,
83(4), 843-853.
doi:10.1037/00223514.83.4.843
http://www.scienced
irect.com.proxy.libra
ry.vcu.edu/science/
article/pii/S0022103
112000236
Van Bommel, M.
(2011). Be aware to
care: Public selfawareness leads to a
reversal of the bystander
effect. Journal of
Experimental Social
Psychology, 48(4), 926930. Retrieved April 18,
2015, from
http://www.sciencedirec
t.com.proxy.library.vcu.
edu/science/article/pii/S
0022103112000236
the presence of
bystanders can
stimulate helping
when people
observe cues in
their social
environment that
invigorate public
self-awareness and
thus reputation
concerns (Van
Bommel, 2011)
Source #5
Dussault, Joseph. "Does
Facebook know you better
than your own
mother?" Christian Science
Monitor 13 Jan.
2015. Opposing
Viewpoints in Context.
Web. 19 Apr. 2015.
It seems to suggest that
almost anything we do
online, right down to our
Likes, is telling of who we
really are (Dussault, 2015).
Conceptual Category:
Hesitancy to interfere
Conceptual Category:
accessibility
-A television audience of
two billion people can now
watch hungry children beg
for food in an area struck
by famine, or they can see
refugees streaming across
the border in search of a
safe place away from those
they fear will kill them
(Singer, 1997).
“we ought to save the lives
of strangers when we can
do so at relatively little cost
to ourselves” (Singer,
1997).
stories spilled out to
the entire world in
real time as history
unfolded in front of
their smartphones.
(Conan, 2013)
In situations like the
arab spring,
conditions were so
volatile that the
status of things was
constantly
changing, and the
vast crowd of
iphone journalists
helped keep the
world up to date on
the situation.
(Conan, 2013)
a lot of the
protestors, if you
follow them online,
you can sense their
exasperation.
(Conan, 2013)
a number of people,
Japanese people
that I know used
Facebook to
communicate and
find out if their
family members in
other areas of
Fukushima were
safe because they
weren't getting the
information from the
government that
they needed.
(Conan, 2013)
• Singer, P. (1997, April 1). The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle.
Retrieved April 19, 2015, from http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704-.htm
• "'Distant Witness': Social Media's 'Journalism Revolution'." Talk of the
Nation 31 Jan. 2013. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.
• Van Bommel, M. (2011). Be aware to care: Public self-awareness leads to a
reversal of the bystander effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
48(4), 926-930. Retrieved April 18, 2015, from
http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/science/article/pii/S0022
103112000236
• Garcia, S. M., Weaver, K., Moskowitz, G. B., & Darley, J. M. (2002). Crowded
minds: The implicit bystander effect. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 83(4), 843-853. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.4.843
• Dussault, Joseph. "Does Facebook know you better than your own
mother?" Christian Science Monitor 13 Jan. 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in
Context. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.