Sex Trafficking and the Media
Subtitle: Perspective from Thailand and the United States
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780415786904
Subjects: Human trafficking; Mass media and crime; Mass media, united states; Mass media, asia
Description: "Explores how sex trafficking has been reported in the media. The book is set in the context of reportage of this human rights abuse in two varying political landscapes--the United States being a developed democracy and Thailand experiencing continued political turmoil including a May 2014 coup d'e<U+00cc><U+0081>tat and an accompanying crackdown on free expression by the ruling military junta. In doing so, the book shows how there are great similarities between the two countries in the way the issue is misrepresented. Drawing on content analysis of news coverage in the United States and Thailand as well as interviews with journalists, anti-trafficking advocates, survivors of sex trafficking and consensual sex workers, this book illuminates reasons why coverage is framed in the way(s) that it is, how anti-trafficking advocates can act as media advocates to push coverage in new directions, and how journalistic functions are similar and different in the two countries"--