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

Sun Nov 26 19:09:52 GMT 2017





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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