Voyeur nation
Subtitle: media, privacy, and peering in modern culture
By: Clay Calvert.
Series: Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries; Critical studies in communication and in cultural industries series
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Mass media; Voyeurism; Privacy, Right of
Description: "Voyeur Nation traces the evolution and forces driving what the author calls the 'voyeurism value.' Calvert argues that although spectatorship and sensationalism are far from new phenomena, today a confluence of factors - legal, social, political, and technological - pushes mediated voyeurism to the forefront of our image-based world.".

"The First Amendment increasingly is called on to safeguard our right, via new technologies and recording devices, to peer into the innermost details of others' lives without fear of legal repercussion. But Calvert argues that the voyeurism value sacrifices privacy and contradicts the value of discourse in democracy and First Amendment theory, since voyeurism by its very nature involves merely watching without interacting or participating.

It privileges watching and viewing media images over participation and interacting in democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.