Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and Professionalism explores the impact of new digital technology and activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary approaches, -citizen witness- challenges to journalism ethics, and expert assessments of the -liberating role- of the　Internet, addressing the following questions:

1. What can scholars from a wide range of disciplines - including communication studies, journalism, sociology, political science, and international relations/studies -...