Human Rights and Media, Volume 6

✍ Scribed by Diana Papademas, Diana Papademas

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: Studies in Communications) (Studies in Media and Communications
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: human rights and media......Page 5
Toward a sociology of human rights......Page 13
Introduction to human rights documents, power, and need for theory......Page 14
The United Nations and the declaration of human rights......Page 20
Universal declaration of human rights (human rights for all)......Page 21
Human rights today......Page 24
Communicating human rights and a perspective on the people of Indian origin......Page 25
The persistence of human rights violations......Page 27
Toward a methodology and theory of human rights......Page 29
Conclusion......Page 30
References......Page 33
The Council of Europe’s human rights: perspective on the media......Page 35
The civilizing process and human rights......Page 36
The human rights role of the council of Europe......Page 37
The freedom of expression report......Page 39
Conclusions......Page 45
References......Page 48
The rhetoric and ideology of human rights in the media......Page 50
Human rights and capitalist empire......Page 52
Human rights and security......Page 56
The human rights reality......Page 57
US media as purveyors of ideology......Page 58
How the media cover human rights......Page 61
Media distortion of the human rights issue is pernicious......Page 63
References......Page 64
War making and propaganda: Media responsibility for human rights communication......Page 66
War programming......Page 68
Mass media war......Page 70
Framing war......Page 72
The news media context for propaganda......Page 73
Organizational reasons for propaganda......Page 74
Manufacturing war propaganda......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 78
References......Page 81
Recognition of genocide in Bosnia: Frameworks of interpretation in U.S. newspapers......Page 84
Method and sample......Page 87
Expectations and findings......Page 88
Crediting and discrediting genocide......Page 92
Discussion and conclusion......Page 95
References......Page 182
National and ethnic discourses on Cyprus television......Page 100
Introduction: The Cyprus national problem......Page 101
The media scene in Cyprus......Page 104
Research on television and identity or ethnicity issues in Cyprus......Page 107
Nationality/ethnicity trends in the statistical research survey......Page 108
National/ethnic discourses in the analysed programmes......Page 112
Conclusions related to national/ethnic issues......Page 113
National/ethnic discourses in interviews and discussions - Language......Page 114
Other national ethnic issues......Page 116
References......Page 125
Human rights discourse in the antebellum black press......Page 127
Introduction......Page 128
Ideological conflict......Page 129
The abolitionist jeremiad as an human rights rhetoric......Page 131
Black abolitionism......Page 132
Black abolitionist newspapers......Page 133
Method......Page 134
Results......Page 135
Discussion......Page 141
References......Page 142
Introduction......Page 144
Professional deontology......Page 145
The child rights standards established by the ILO......Page 146
Personal choices as a responsible and ethical photojournalist......Page 147
The body of the work......Page 151
South Asia......Page 152
South America / Peru......Page 155
Africa......Page 160
Conclusions......Page 163
References......Page 165
Internet, computer-mediated communications and gay rights movements in Taiwan......Page 166
Introduction......Page 167
Homosexuality in Taiwan......Page 168
Internet and virtual gay communities......Page 170
Gay rights movements in Taiwan......Page 172
Chang-Der street police harassment incident......Page 173
Online gay rights movements in Taiwan......Page 174
Internet as an information-sharing and information-exchanging medium......Page 175
Internet as a virtual conference room......Page 177
Internet as a device to record history of gay rights movements......Page 178
The cultural and radical uses of the Internet......Page 179
Conclusion......Page 180
Notes......Page 181
Disability and the media in the 21st century......Page 185
FDR and the ‘‘Veil of Silence’’......Page 186
Media images of disability......Page 188
Disabled veterans and the credibility crisis......Page 190
A tactile alphabet and a visual syntax......Page 192
Independent living and the ‘‘Mecca for the handicapped’’......Page 195
Mainstreaming public transit......Page 198
Americans with disabilities act......Page 202
Physician-assisted suicide......Page 206
An appropriate education for children with disabilities......Page 208
Assessing the mainstream and alternative media......Page 211
Disability and the media in the 21st century......Page 215
References......Page 220
About the authors......Page 223