[ecrea] New Book on "Making Human Rights News"

For all interested in the process of human rights issues becoming 
newsworthy and litigation-worthy, I am announcing the publication of a 
new book co-edited by me and a good friend and colleague, Morton 
Winston, renown human rights scholar and activist, and former chair of 
the US section of Amnesty International.

The book is titled: "Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation 
and Professionalism: (Routledge, 2017)

https://www.routledge.com/Making-Human-Rights-News-Balancing-Participation-and-Professionalism/Pollock-Winston/p/book/9781138037748


      Description

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, addressing the following questions:

1. What can scholars from a wide range of disciplines – including 
communication studies, journalism, sociology, political science, and 
international relations/studies – add to traditional　legal and political 
human rights discussions, exploring the impact of innovative digital 
information technologies on the gathering and dissemination of human 
rights news?

2. What questions about journalism ethics and professionalism arise as 
growing numbers of　untrained "citizen witnesses" use modern mobile 
technology to document claims of human rights abuses?

3. What are the limits of the "liberating role" of the Internet in 
challenging traditional sources of authority and credibility, such as 
professional journalists and human rights professionals?

4. How do greater Internet access and human rights activism interact 
with variations in press freedom and government censorship worldwide to 
promote respect for different categories of human rights, such as 
women's rights and rights to health?

This book was originally published as a special issue of the /Journal of 
Human Rights./



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