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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petley, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press.

Privacy, Right of.

Mass media.

Reputation (Law).

Mass media--Law and legislation.

Press law.

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Journalistic ethics.

Physical Description:

xxii, 229 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

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 relations, and whether these are still relevant in the age of social media. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 To Punish, Inform, and Criticise: The Goals of Naming and Shaming / Jacob Rowbottom Rowbottom, Jacob 1

2 Public Interest or Public Shaming? / Julian Petley Petley, Julian 19

3 Privacy and the Freedom of the Press: A False Dichotomy / Simon Dawes Dawes, Simon 43

4 On Privacy: From Mill to Mosley / Julian Petley Petley, Julian 59

5 Disclosure and Public Shaming in the Age of New Visibility / Hanne Detel Detel, Hanne 77

6 Cultural and Gender Differences in Self-Disclosure on Social Networking Sites / Jingwei Wu Wu, Jingwei, Heng Lu Lu, Heng 97

7 Crime News and Privacy: Comparing Crime Reporting in Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom / Romayne Smith Fullerton Fullerton, Romayne Smith, Maggie Jones Patterson Patterson, Maggie Jones 115

8 The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Scandal: Mediating Authenticity in Le Monde and the New York Times / Julia Lefkowitz Lefkowitz, Julia 145

9 Public Interest and individual Taste in Disclosing an Irish Minister's Illness / Kevin Rafter Rafter, Kevin 165

10 Visible 'Evidence' in TV News: Regulating Privacy in the Public Interest? / Tim Dwyer Dwyer, Tim 179

11 John Leslie: The Naming and Shaming of an Innocent Man / Adrian Quinn Quinn, Adrian 201

12 The Two Cultures / John Lloyd Lloyd, John 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780765877

1780765878

9781780765860

178076586X

OCLC:

825559495