The most recent definition was provided by the African Journal of Social Work (AJSW). The journal defined ubuntu as: A collection of values and practices that people of Africa or of African origin view as making people authentic human beings.
Advocates of ubuntu journalism want reporters to shift their sense of obligation and duty away from prescribed norms of independence and objectivity and towards the societies whose communication they facilitate.
Is objectivity necessary in Ubuntu journalism?
Nevertheless, in ubuntu journalism objectivity may neither be necessary nor desirable (Okigbo 1996). The journalist is seen to be involved member of the community and cannot remain a spectator. Through the journalist’s work, a voice must be given to the community.
Can Ubuntuism be a normative framework for media and journalism?
Taking ubuntuism’s emphasis on the community as point of departure, Blankenberg (1999), Christians ( 2004), Okigbo (1996), Shutt (2001) and Wasserman and De Beer ( 2004) show how an ubuntu normative framework may emphasis a media and journalism whose primary role may be to provide a space for the concerns, ideas and opinions of the community.
What is Ubuntu communitarianism?
As a normative paradigm for media ethics, ubuntu communitarianism emphasises authentic disclosure for news and moral literacy as the media’s mission. Its liberatory journalism empowers citizens to come to agreement about social problems and solutions among themselves rather than depending on the political elite or professional experts.
Does Ubuntu have a built-in surveillance feature?
Ubuntu allows users to switch the surveillance off. Clearly Canonical thinks that many Ubuntu users will leave this setting in the default state (on). And many may do so, because it doesn’t occur to them to try to do anything about it. Thus, the existence of that switch does not make the surveillance feature ok.
Does ubuntu spy?
The answer is no. Linux in its vanilla form does not spy on its users. However people have used the Linux kernel in certain distributions that is known to spy on its users. What to do after installing Ubuntu ?
When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical’s servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.) This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in Windows.
Is there any spyware on Ubuntu?
As spyware can be for any OS, and aren’t so evident in Linux distros because of increased security and smaller market share, they certainly exist. Even if there is no information on spyware for ubuntu available, your ‘someone you know’ could have written it themselves.
You may be thinking “Is the spyware search facility enabled by default in Ubuntu?”
Since Ubuntu version 16.04, the spyware search facility is now disabled by default. It appears that the campaign of pressure launched by this article has been partly successful. Nonetheless, offering the spyware search facility as an option is still a problem, as explained below.