Journalism for Social Change in Asia [electronic resource] : Reporting Human Rights /
Downman, Scott.author.
Ubayasiri, Kasun.author.
This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context. This is not just a book for journalists, or journalism academics, but a book for activists, human rights advocates or anyone who believes in the power of journalism to change the world.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Chapter 1: Journalism for Social Change in Human Rights Journalism  -- Chapter 2: Human Rights as a news value  -- Chapter 3: Advocacy journalism, social media and citizen reporters: Chapter 4: Human trafficking, people smuggling, refugee migration and the media  -- Chapter 5: Smuggled or trafficked: the story of the Rohingya  -- Chapter 6: Human Right reporting, war crimes and refugee migration  -- Chapter 7: A human rights approach to media coverage of human trafficking  -- Chapter 8: Multiple narratives – truths and spin of human trafficking  -- Chapter 9: Multidimensional approach to human rights reporting in the digital age.
This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context. This is not just a book for journalists, or journalism academics, but a book for activists, human rights advocates or anyone who believes in the power of journalism to change the world.
Ethnology-Asia.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Asian Culture.
Media and Communication.
Cultural Theory.
Journalism.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Middle Eastern Culture.