Human Rights and Media - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0762300523 ISBN 13 : 9780762300525

Editeur : JAI Press Inc., 2011

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Studies in Communications is a series that presents contemporary scholarship on the central dynamic of society - communications. Theoretically grounded, empirical studies drawn from the social sciences focus on the institutional patterns and the dynamic processes of meaning construction. Drawing from theories in mass media/communications, critical theory, comparative and historical analysis, qualitative and quantitative research yield compelling themes. Applications for policy and for teaching are incorporated.

New themes under the editorship of Diana Papademas will include: human rights and media; children/youth and new media; communities and information technology; communications and stereotypes; visual sociology.

*Examines human rights and media from the perspective of the communications discipline
*Focuses on human rights media and civil society and media discourse on diverse human rights issues
*Includes a wide range of topics, from Eurpoean media to genocide in Bosnia, the Holocaust, and empowerment of women and children

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: JAI Press Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0762300523
• ISBN 13: 9780762300525
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Éditeur: Papademas Diana
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible