Title: Rätten till privatlivet
Description: Investigates how the idea of ​​a defined and protected private sphere in Sweden changes and grows stronger during the 20th century and how the Swedish press has motivated intrusion into privacy. The investigation deals with the period of 1920-1980 and is based on the dispute surrounding the newspaper Fäderneslandet. During the 1920s, the magazine engaged in a type of journalism still unique in its disclosure of people's private affairs. It was considered so ruthless that it was boycotted and forced to shut down in 1927 by consensus of a unified press against it and public opinion. The era of the Fäderneslandet boycott was also a period of Swedish history when the boundaries of privacy were staked out and made visible, and when the values ​​of society changed fundamentally. Fueled by the 1920s morality debate, the homosexual witch hunt of the 1950s and a journalism challenging the status quo in the 1960s, the public and press took on the question of privacy. The book provides a historical perspective on today's debates on the issue of privacy, personal integrity and the responsibility of the press. How do you protect the right to a protected sphere in a world where everything can be made visible? --
Subjects: Right of Privacy, Privacy, History, Press, Moral and ethical aspects, Journalistic ethics, Fäderneslandet
Places: Sweden
Time periods: 20th century