Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights

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.

• 1 Mapping the Field: Media and Human RightsPart 1Communication, Expression and Human Rights2 UNESCO’s evolving perspectives on the media and human rights3 History of Media and Human Rights4 Media freedom of expression at the Strasbourg Court: Current predictability of the standard of protection offered5 Communication freedoms versus communication rights: Discursive and Normative struggles within Civil Society and Beyond6 Freedom of Information and the Media7 Freedom of Expression and the Chilling Effect8 Human Rights and Press Law9 Human rights and the digital10 Children’s rights in the digital age11 Media and Information Literacy (MIL): Taking the digital social turn for online freedoms and education 3.012 Digital Media Practices, Systems, and Rights13 All human rights are local. The resiliency of social change.Part 2Media Performance and Human Rights: Political Processes14 Political determinants of media freedom15 Beyond the binary of universalism and relativism: Iran, media and the discourse of human rights16 Rights, reporting and mass-surveillance in a digital age17 Civil society and political-intelligence elites: From manipulation to public accountability18 Foreign policy, media and human rights19 Public diplomacy, media, and human rightsPart 3Media Performance and Human Rights: News and Journalism20 Global media ethics, human rights and flourishing21 Investigative journalism and human rights22 International reporting23 Global violence against journalists: The power of impunity and emerging initiatives to evoke social change24 Media, human rights and civic organizations25 Rights and responsibilities when using user-generated content to report crisis events26 Environmental Activism, Journalism and the ‘New War’Part 4Digital Activism, Witnessing and Human Rights27 Social media and human rights advocacy28 All the world’s a stage: The rise of transnational celebrity advocacy for human rights29 Social media reinvigorates disability rights activism globally30 Media and LGBT advocacy: Visibility and transnationalism in a digital age31 Live-witnessing, slacktivism, and surveillance: Understanding the opportunities, challenges, and risks of human rights activism in a digital era32 Human rights and the media/protest assemblage33 Imaging human rights: On the ethical and political implications of picturing pain34 Citizen Witnessing of Human Rights Abuses35 Video and witnessing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia36 Media, human rights and digital affordancesPart 5Media Representation of Human Rights: Cultural, Social, and Political37 Media, culture, and human rights: Towards an intercultural communication and Human Rights Journalism nexus38 Media and women’s human rights39 News Coverage of female genital cutting: A seven country comparative study40 Media, human rights and religion41 The Role of News Media in Fostering Children’s Democratic Citizenship42 News language and human rights: audiences and outsiders43 Media, Human Rights and Political Discourse44 Media, Human Rights and Refugees45 Labor journalism, human rights and social change46 Media, Public Safety, and Human Rights47 Prisoners, Human Rights and the Media48 Changes in War-Making, Media and Human Rights: Revolution or Repackaging?49 Media, Terrorism, and Freedom of Expression