Julian Petley

Media and Public Shaming (eBook, ePUB)

Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The media today, and especially the national press, are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye, particularly politicians and celebrities, over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have argued that 'naming and shaming' serious wrong-doing and behaviour on the part of public officials is justified as being in the public interest. However, when the media spotlight is shone on perfetly legal personal behaviour, family issues and sexual orientation, and when, in particular this involves ordinary people, the question arises of whether such matters are really in the 'public interest' in any meaningful sense of the term. In this book, leading academics, commentators and journalists from a variety of different cultures consider the extent to which the media are entitled to reveal details of people's private lives, the laws and regulations which govern such relations, and whether these are still relevant in the age of social media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857733382
• Artikelnr.: 41288673

Autorenporträt

Julian Petley, Professor of Journalism and Screen Media, School of Arts, Brunel University, London, England.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Foreword
Hugh Tomlinson QC Introduction
Julian Petley
Brunel University To Punish
Inform and Criticize: The Goals of Naming and Shaming
Jacob Rowbottom Public Interest or Public Shaming
Julian Petley Privacy and the Freedom of the Press: A False Dichotomy
Simon Dawes On Privacy: From Mill to Mosley
Julian Petley Disclosure and Public Shaming in the Digital Age
Hanne Detel Cultural and Gender Differences in Self-Disclosure on Social Networking Sites
Jingwei Wu Crime News and Privacy: Comparing Crime Reporting in Sweden
the Netherlands
and the United Kingdom
Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson The Dominique Strauss-Khan Scandal: Mediating Authenticity in Le Monde and the New York Times
Julia Lefkowitz
American University Paris Public Interest and Individual Taste in Reporting an Irish Minister's Illness
Kevin Rafter Visible 'Evidence' in TV News: Regulating Privacy and the Public Interest
Tim Dwyer John Leslie: The Naming and Shaming of an Innocent Man
Adrian Quinn The Two Cultures
John Lloyd Index