[ecrea] NEW BOOK: The Media and Public Shaming

THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC SHAMING, edited by Julian Petley

Published in Paperback by I.B.Tauris, in Association with Reuters 
Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford; 22nd August 2013; Priced 
£17.99; ISBN 9781780765877



A highly topical subject, particularly in the wake of phone-hacking and 
the subsequent Leveson Inquiry, this book examines the practice of 
‘public shaming’ especially of celebrities and politicians in the 
tabloids and considers the media’s right to exposes people’s private 
lives in the ‘interest of the public’.



The book brings together contributions from experts in the field who 
focus on old and new media and offer a global perspective on the issue. 
Well known cases involving John Leslie and Max Mosley are examined as 
well as the case of Irish politician Brian Lenihan, whose diagnosis of 
terminal cancer was leaked by the press the day after Christmas and 
Australian politician David Campbell, who was exposed as having visited 
a gay sex club. Public shaming of individuals and companies through 
social media and the differences in self-disclosure among cultures are 
also looked at. In the last chapter John Lloyd, Director of Journalism 
at the Reuters Institute, explores British journalism after The News of 
the World affair.



Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media in the School of Arts at 
Brunel University, co-Chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting 
Freedom and a member of the editorial board of the British Journalism 
Review and the advisory board of Index on Censorship.



Table of Contents



Foreword, Hugh Tomlinson QC



Introduction, Julian Petley



Chapter 1: To punish, inform and criticize: the goals of naming and 
shaming, Jacob Rowbotham

Chapter 2: Public interest or public shaming? Julian Petley

Chapter 3: Privacy and the freedom of the press: a false dichotomy, 
Simon Dawes

Chapter 4: On privacy: from Mill to Mosley, Julian Petley

Chapter 5: Disclosure and public shaming in the age of new visibility, 
Hanne Detel

Chapter 6: Culture and gender differences in self-disclosure on social 
networking sites, Jingwei Wu and Heng Lu

Chapter 7: Crime news and privacy: comparing crime reporting in Sweden, 
the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Romayne Smith Fullerton and 
Maggie Jones Patterson

Chapter 8: The Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal: mediating authenticity in 
Le Monde and the New York Times, Julia Lefkowitz

Chapter 9: Public interest and individual taste in reporting an Irish 
minister’s illness, Kevin Rafter

Chapter 10: Visible ‘evidence’ in TV news: regulating  privacy in the 
public interest? Tim Dwyer

Chapter 11: John Leslie: the naming and shaming an innocent man, Adrian 
Quinn

Chapter 12: The two cultures, John Lloyd



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