Part I: Human rights media and civil society. Toward a sociology of human rights / Mahin Gosine -- The council of Europe's human rights: perspective on the media / Sam Cherribi -- The rhetoric and ideology of human rights in the media / Josh Klein. -- Part II: Media discourse on diverse human rights issues. War making and propaganda: media responsibility for human rights communication / David L. Altheide and Jennifer N. Grimes -- Recognition of genocide in Bosnia: frameworks of interpretation in U.S. newspapers / Helen Fein, Walter Ezell and Harbert F. Spirer -- national and ethnic discourses on Cyprus television / Nayia Roussou -- Human rights discourse in the Antebellum black press / Timothy Shortell -- Child labor and photojournalism / Edoardo Gianotti -- Internet, computer-mediated communications and gay rights movements in Taiwan / Chung-Yi Cheng and Kenneth C. C. Yang -- Disability and the media in the 21st century / Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames.

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