FRONT COVER -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS MEDIA AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS, POWER, AND NEED FOR THEORY -- THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL) -- NON-GOVERNMENT AGENCIES -- HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY -- COMMUNICATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND A PERSPECTIVE ON THE PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN -- THE PERSISTENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS -- TOWARD A METHODOLOGY AND THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S HUMAN RIGHTS: PERSPECTIVE ON THE MEDIA -- THE CIVILIZING PROCESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE -- THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION REPORT -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- THE RHETORIC AND IDEOLOGY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MEDIA -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND CAPITALIST EMPIRE -- HUMAN RIGHTS AND SECURITY -- THE HUMAN RIGHTS REALITY -- US MEDIA AS PURVEYORS OF IDEOLOGY -- HOW THE MEDIA COVER HUMAN RIGHTS -- MEDIA DISTORTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE IS PERNICIOUS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: MEDIA DISCOURSE ON DIVERSE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES -- WAR MAKING AND PROPAGANDA: MEDIA RESPONSIBILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNICATION -- WAR PROGRAMMING -- MASS MEDIA WAR -- FRAMING WAR -- THE NEWS MEDIA CONTEXT FOR PROPAGANDA -- ORGANIZATIONAL REASONS FOR PROPAGANDA -- MANUFACTURING WAR PROPAGANDA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA: FRAMEWORKS OF INTERPRETATION IN U.S. NEWSPAPERS -- METHOD AND SAMPLE -- EXPECTATIONS AND FINDINGS -- CREDITING AND DISCREDITING GENOCIDE -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NATIONAL AND ETHNIC DISCOURSES ON CYPRUS TELEVISION -- INTRODUCTION: THE CYPRUS NATIONAL PROBLEM.

THE MEDIA SCENE IN CYPRUS -- RESEARCH ON TELEVISION AND IDENTITY OR ETHNICITY ISSUES IN CYPRUS -- NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY TRENDS IN THE STATISTICAL RESEARCH SURVEY -- NATIONAL/ETHNIC DISCOURSES IN THE ANALYSED PROGRAMMES -- CONCLUSIONS RELATED TO NATIONAL/ETHNIC ISSUES -- NATIONAL/ETHNIC DISCOURSES IN INTERVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS - LANGUAGE -- OTHER NATIONAL ETHNIC ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE IN THE ANTEBELLUM BLACK PRESS -- INTRODUCTION -- IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT -- THE ABOLITIONIST JEREMIAD AS AN HUMAN RIGHTS RHETORIC -- BLACK ABOLITIONISM -- BLACK ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPERS -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHILD LABOR AND PHOTOJOURNALISM -- INTRODUCTION -- PROFESSIONAL DEONTOLOGY -- THE CHILD RIGHTS STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE ILO -- PERSONAL CHOICES AS A RESPONSIBLE AND ETHICAL PHOTOJOURNALIST -- THE BODY OF THE WORK -- DOCUMENTING THE PROBLEMS: THE CHOICE OF PLACES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INTERNET, COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS AND GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN TAIWAN -- INTRODUCTION -- HOMOSEXUALITY IN TAIWAN -- INTERNET AND VIRTUAL GAY COMMUNITIES -- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN TAIWAN -- CHANG-DER STREET POLICE HARASSMENT INCIDENT -- ONLINE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN TAIWAN -- THE INSTRUMENTAL USES OF THE INTERNET -- THE CULTURAL AND RADICAL USES OF THE INTERNET -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- DISABILITY AND THE MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- FDR AND THE ''VEIL OF SILENCE'' -- MEDIA IMAGES OF DISABILITY -- DISABLED VETERANS AND THE CREDIBILITY CRISIS -- A TACTILE ALPHABET AND A VISUAL SYNTAX -- INDEPENDENT LIVING AND THE ''MECCA FOR THE HANDICAPPED'' -- MAINSTREAMING PUBLIC TRANSIT -- AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT -- PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE -- AN APPROPRIATE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES -- ASSESSING THE MAINSTREAM AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA.

DISABILITY AND THE MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.