Human Rights Media / Entertainment Law

Human Rights in the Media: Fear and Fetish

Edited by Eleanor Drywood · Michelle Farrell · Edel Hughes
Routledge January 2019

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ISBN-13
9781138645813
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
January 2019
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Human rights law has a significant impact today, globally and at the domestic level, on law, politics and life. Despite its extensive institutionalisation and its universal, transnational and domestic acceptance and presence, the value of human rights law is highly contested in politics and in practice. The media plays a role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints and its, arguably, significant influence on public perception of rights.

This book seeks to untangle the interrelationships amongst the representation of rights in the media, public opinion on rights, and human rights law and practice. Contributors to the volume explore issues such as the extent of media engagement with human rights law, the media's conception and interpretation of human rights law and its awareness of the impact of human rights law and the effect of media representation on public perception of human rights law. The book offers a critical appraisal of the media's role in representing human rights provoking debate on the ways in which the media reflects or neglects ongoing and significant legal and academic debates about the salience and value of human rights.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Michelle Farrell

Part 1: The Relationship between Human Rights and the Media
2. Human Rights and Public Debate: the Media as Scapegoat?, Ekaterina Balabanova
3. The Inderminancy of Human Rights in Law and in the Media, Michelle Farrell
4. The Impact of Human Rights Law on the Media: The Rights to Privacy and Freedom of Expression, Yvonne McDermott

Part 2: Media Polarity on Rights?
5. Do we learn more about the media than about human rights from tabloid coverage of human rights?, David Mead
6. The Monstering of Human Rights: Why Politicians, Press and Public turned against the ECHR, Adam Wagner; 7. "Separating the Wheat from the Chaff": Distinguishing between Substance and Rhetoric in the "Turn against Rights", Colm O’ Cinneide
8. Instrumentalism in Human Rights and the Media: What Place for Democratic Scepticism?, Mike Gordon

Part 3: Representation and Reality 9. Angels and Demons: Children, Human Rights and the Media, Aoife Daly; 10. Taking Care of our Own: Local and National Representations of Immigrants' Human Rights, Eleanor Drywood and Harriet Gray
11. Friendly Fire: Prisoner Voting Rights and Public Perception of Human Rights, Colin Murray

Part 5: Rights as Ruse
12. Seeing and Time: Mass Media and the Temporality of Human Rights, Eric Heinze
13. Celebrity Human Rights Defenders, Michael Kearney
14.Conclusion, Michelle Farrell
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