Making Human Rights News (eBook, PDF)

Balancing Participation and Professionalism
Redaktion: Pollock, John; Winston, Morton

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and Professionalism explores the impact of new digital technology and activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary approaches, "citizen witness" challenges to journalism ethics, and expert assessments of the "liberating role" of the Internet. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351711166
• Artikelnr.: 57434253

Autorenporträt

John C. Pollock (PhD, Stanford) is Professor of Communication Studies at The College of New Jersey. His most recent books include Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change (2007), Media and Social Inequality: Innovations in Community Structure Research (2013), and Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage (2015). With special interests in media sociology and political communication, he conducts research on health communication and human rights. Morton E. Winston (PhD, Illinois) is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. His areas of specialization include human rights theory and practice, global ethics, and the philosophy of technology. His most recent books are On Chomsky (2001) and Society, Ethics, and Technology (2013). He served as Chairman of Amnesty International USA's National Board of Directors and was the Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and International Relations at the Danish Institute of Human Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Human Rights in the News: Balancing New Media Participation
with the Authority of Journalism and Human Rights Professionals. 1. A New
Era of Human Rights News? Contrasting Two Paradigms of Human Rights News
Making 2. Source Credibility as 'Information Subsidy': Strategies for
Successful NGO Journalism at Mexican Human Rights NGOs 3. The Rise of
Eyewitness Video and Its Implications for Human Rights: Conceptual and
Methodological Approaches 4. Non Profit Product Placement: Human Rights
Advocacy in Film and Television 5. Promoting the People's Surrogate: The
Case for Press Freedom as a Distinct Human Right 6. News about Her: The
Effects of Media Freedom and Internet Access on Women's Rights 7. Beyond
Naming and Shaming: New Modalities of Information Politics in Human Rights