基本説明
Examines human rights and media from the perspective of the communications discipline.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Human Rights and Media- Diana Papademas; Towards a Sociology of Human Rights- Mahin Gosine; The Council of Europe's Human Rights: Perspectives on the Media- Sam Cherribi; The Rhetoric and Ideology of Human Rights in the Media- Josh Klein; War Making and Propaganda: Media Responsibility for Human Rights Communication - David L. Altheide and Jennifer N. Grimes; Recognition of Genocide in Bosnia: Frameworks of Interpretation in U.S. Newspapers- Helen Fein, Walter Ezell, and Herbert F. Spirer; National and Ethnic Discourse on Cyprus Television - Nayia Roussou; Human Rights Discourse in the Antebellum Black Press - Timothy Shortell; Child Labor in Photojournalism - Edoardo Gianotti; Internet, Computer-Mediated Communication and Gay Rights - Chung - Yi Cheng and Kenneth C. C. Yang; Disability and the Media in the 21st Century - Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames; About the Authors.
