Can I read Human Rights Journalism : Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions on EtoBox?

Human Rights Journalism : Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions by Ibrahim Seaga Shaw PhD (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Human Rights Journalism : Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions about?

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention. Drawing on case studies of the reporting of distant humanitarian interventions, especially in Eastern Europe and Africa by the mainstream Western media, Ibrahim Shaw illuminates how journalists can create a more informed and empowered public sphere. He argues that journalists do not only hold the power to inform the public, but have the moral responsibility as duty bearers to educate and increase awareness of their rights and monitor, investigate and report all human rights violations. It is the first book to exclusively and critically explore the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights. Drawing on Kant's cosmopolitan principle of global justice, Shaw puts forward the case for human rights journalism as a more proactive approach in prioritising the deconstruction of indirect structural and cultural violence, and as the best way of preventing or minimising direct political violenc

Who reads Human Rights Journalism : Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions?

Author

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw PhD (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230358874

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Language Learning, Science