1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
1 Mapping the Field: Media and Human Rights
Part 1
Communication, Expression and Human Rights
2 UNESCO’s evolving perspectives on the media and human rights
3 History of Media and Human Rights
4 Media freedom of expression at the Strasbourg Court: Current predictability of the standard of protection offered
5 Communication freedoms versus communication rights: Discursive and Normative struggles within Civil Society and Beyond
6 Freedom of Information and the Media
7 Freedom of Expression and the Chilling Effect
8 Human Rights and Press Law
9 Human rights and the digital
10 Children’s rights in the digital age
11 Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Taking the digital social turn for online freedoms and education 3.0
12 Digital Media Practices, Systems, and Rights
13 All human rights are local. The resiliency of social change.
Part 2
Media Performance and Human Rights: Political Processes
14 Political determinants of media freedom
15 Beyond the binary of universalism and relativism: Iran, media and the discourse of human rights
16 Rights, reporting and mass-surveillance in a digital age
17 Civil society and political-intelligence elites: From manipulation to public accountability
18 Foreign policy, media and human rights
19 Public diplomacy, media, and human rights
Part 3
Media Performance and Human Rights: News and Journalism
20 Global media ethics, human rights and flourishing
21 Investigative journalism and human rights
22 International reporting
23 Global violence against journalists: The power of impunity and emerging initiatives to evoke social change
24 Media, human rights and civic organization
Biography
Howard Tumber is Professor of Journalism and Communication at City, University of London, UK. He is the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of news and journalism.
Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Communication, and he has published widely about news, politics, and social change.
