Introduction: Human Rights in the News: Balancing New Media Participation with the Authority of Journalism and Human Rights Professionals. 1. A New Era of Human Rights News? Contrasting Two Paradigms of Human Rights News Making 2. Source Credibility as ‘Information Subsidy’: Strategies for Successful NGO Journalism at Mexican Human Rights NGOs 3. The Rise of Eyewitness Video and Its Implications for Human Rights: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches 4. Non Profit Product Placement: Human Rights Advocacy in Film and Television 5. Promoting the People’s Surrogate: The Case for Press Freedom as a Distinct Human Right 6. News about Her: The Effects of Media Freedom and Internet Access on Women’s Rights 7. Beyond Naming and Shaming: New Modalities of Information Politics in Human Rights
John C. Pollock (PhD, Stanford) is Professor of Communication
Studies at The College of New Jersey. His most recent books include
Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change
(2007), Media and Social Inequality: Innovations in Community
Structure Research (2013), and Journalism and Human Rights: How
Demographics Drive Media Coverage (2015). With special interests in
media sociology and political communication, he conducts research
on health communication and human rights.
Morton E. Winston (PhD, Illinois) is Professor of Philosophy at The
College of New Jersey. His areas of specialization include human
rights theory and practice, global ethics, and the philosophy of
technology. His most recent books are On Chomsky (2001) and
Society, Ethics, and Technology (2013). He served as Chairman of
Amnesty International USA’s National Board of Directors and was the
Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and International Relations at
the Danish Institute of Human Rights.
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