Human Rights in the Media: Fear and Fetish

ISBN-13: 9781138645813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 306 str.

Eleanor Drywood;Michelle Farrell;Edel Hughes

Opis

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.

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Introduction, Eleanor Drywood, Michelle Farrell and Edel Hughes Part 1: Headlines 1. "They Offer You a Feature on Stockings and Suspenders Next to a Call for Stiffer Penalties for Sex Offenders": Do We Learn More About the Media Than about Human Rights from Tabloid Coverage of Human Rights Stories?, David Mead 2. It’s Not Me, It’s You: Examining the Print Media’s Approach to ‘Europe’ in Brexit Britain, Stephanie Reynolds 3. British Human Rights Scepticism through the Lens of European Newspapers, Lieve Gies Part 2: Features 4. Monstering Strasbourg over Prisoner Voting Rights, C R G Murray 5. Demonising Immigrants: How a Human Rights Narrative Has Contributed to Negative Portrayals of Immigrants in the UK Media, Eleanor Drywood and Harriet Gray 6. Trial by Media: The Fair Trial Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the UK Press, Yvonne McDermott Rees Part 3: In-depth 7. Human Rights and Public Debate: The Media as Scapegoat?, Ekaterina Balabanova 8. Careful What You Wish For: Press Criticism of the Legal Protection of Human Rights, Jacob Rowbottom Part 4: Op-Eds 9. Arguing the Case for Human Rights in Brexit Britain, Colm O’Cinnéide 10. Instrumentalism in Human Rights and the Media: Locking Out Democratic Scepticism?, Michael Gordon 11. Magna Carta and the Invention of ‘British Rights’, Michelle Farrell and Edel Hughes