Research Catalog

Title

Media and public shaming : drawing the boundaries of disclosure / edited by Julian Petley.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; [Oxford] : Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Petley, Julian.
• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Description

xxii, 229 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The media today, and especially the national press, are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye, particularly politicians and celebrities, over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have argued that 'naming and shaming' serious wrong-doing and behaviour on the part of public officials is justified as being in the public interest. However, when the media spotlight is shone on perfectly legal personal behaviour, family issues and sexual orientation, and when, in particular, this involves ordinary people, the question arises of whether such matters are really in the 'public interest' in any meaningful sense of the term. In this book, leading academics, commentators and journalists from a variety of different cultures, consider the extent to which the media are entitled to reveal details of people's private lives, the laws and regulations which govern such revelations, and whether these are still relevant in the age of social media."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Journalistic ethics
• Privacy, Right of
• Reputation (Law)
• Freedom of the press
• Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects
• Press law
• Mass media > Law and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

To Punish, Inform, and Criticise : The Goals of Naming and Shaming / Jacob Rowbottom -- Public Interest or Public Shaming? / Julian Petley -- Privacy and the Freedom of the Press : A False Dichotomy / Simon Dawes -- On Privacy : From Mill to Mosley / Julian Petley -- Disclosure and Public Shaming in the Age of New Visibility / Hanne Detel -- Cultural and Gender Differences in Self-Disclosure on Social Networking Sites / Jingwei Wu and Heng Lu -- Crime News and Privacy : Comparing Crime Reporting in Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom / Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson -- The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Scandal : Mediating Authenticity in Le Monde and the New York Times / Julia Lefkowitz -- Public Interest and Individual Taste in Disclosing an Irish Minister's Illness / Kevin Rafter -- Visible 'Evidence' in TV News : Regulating Privacy in the Public Interest? / Tim Dwyer -- John Leslie : The Naming and Shaming of an Innocent Man / Adrian Quinn -- The Two Cultures / John Lloyd.

Call Number

JFD 13-6024

ISBN

• 9781780765877 (pbk.)
• 1780765878 (pbk.)
• 9781780765860 (hbk.)
• 178076586X (hbk.)

OCLC

825559495

Title

Media and public shaming : drawing the boundaries of disclosure / edited by Julian Petley.

Publisher

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; [Oxford] : Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Petley, Julian.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-6024