Human Rights and Media (Studies in Communications, 6) - Hardcover

Diana Papademas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762300523 ISBN 13: 9780762300525

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

Volume 6 on "Human Rights and Media" introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors. News media, the press, television, cinema, photojournalism, the internet and other documentary forms are among the media investigated by the authors. Civil society dialogue, the rhetoric and ideology of human rights, the propaganda and media responsibility around such themes as war, genocide, ethnic division, nationalism, race, gender, child labor and disability are human rights themes addressed in this volume.

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Book Description

A look at the diverse concepts linked to human rights and media

Review

Volume six in a series on modern communications studies, this collection of ten essays explores the nexus of human rights and media in the context of traditional and mainstream outlets of mass communication. The work is divided into sections covering human rights media and civil society, and media discourse on human rights issues, and individual articles address such topics as the rhetoric and ideology of human rights in the media, war making and propaganda, child labor and photojournalism and disability and the media in the twenty-first century. Contributors include academics in communications, journalism and public policy fields as well as professional journalists from a variety of international institutions. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762300523
• ISBN 13: 9780762300525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Diana Papademas