Overview
- Explains journalism as a sociological process that helps underpin and highlight journalism’s role in instigating and facilitating social change
- Draws from both mainstream and alternative media reportage of human rights advocacy, to illustrate best practice models, shortcomings and limitations in the contemporary coverage, and where possible make suggestions on better reporting strategies
- Case studies are drawn from South and Southeast Asia, an area rarely subjected to academic scrutiny in the field of human rights journalism
- Provides a holistic approach to human rights reporting, linking armed conflicts and poverty, with refugee migration, people smuggling and human trafficking
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change (PSCSC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kasun Ubayasiri is a Journalism Lecturer at Griffith University, and a former Sri Lankan journalist with a special interest in human rights and conflict reporting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Journalism for Social Change in Asia
Book Subtitle: Reporting Human Rights
Authors: Scott Downman, Kasun Ubayasiri
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95179-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95178-9Published: 10 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95752-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95179-6Published: 31 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6397
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Journalism, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Middle Eastern Culture