Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media in the School of Arts at Brunel University, and is a member of the editorial board of the British Journalism Review and of the advisory board of Index on Censorship. He has recently co-edited Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (with Chas Critcher, Jason Hughes and Amanda Rohloff), and his most recent publications include Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain and Censorship: A Beginners Guide. A former journalist, he is co-Chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.
In the post-Leveson world of on- and offline media, where rumour and disinformation as much as news create headlines in seconds, the relationship between individual privacy, public interest and press freedom has never been so ethically complex or more radically contested. Julian Petley has brought together a distinguished group of journalists and journalism scholars to analyse, debate and disentangle these complexities and identify possible ways forward in a shifting world of press regulation. Media and Public Shaming is a significant and timely book. It should be read by everyone interested in the future of journalism and news media; we all have interests in democracy.
Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University
The Reuters Institute would like to acknowledge the assistance of Robert G. Picard and John Lloyd as readers on behalf of the Institute.
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List of Illustrations
Tables
Overview of the Case Studies |
Subject, Amplifying Factors, and Mode of Disclosure |
Intercoder Reliability of Variables |
Privacy Settings of Users of Different SNSs |
Picture Types on Profiles of Users of Different SNSs |
Privacy Settings of SNS Users of Different Genders |
Two-Way Analysis of Variables for Self-Disclosure in Different Cultural Contexts |
Two-Way Analysis of Variables for Self-Disclosure within Individualistic Cultural Contexts |
Figures
Paid newspaper circulation per 1,000 population |
Percentage of people who tend to trust political institutions, press, and TV (2002/2012) |
Use of opinion in political coverage (1960s/2000s) |
Use of objectivity-related elements in political coverage (1960s/2000s) |
List of Contributors
Simon Dawes works as an editorial assistant for the journals Theory, Culture and Society and Body and Society, and has taught at Derby University, the University of Leicester, and Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He is currently researching theories of privacy and the public sphere in broadcasting and press regulation.
Hanne Detel is a research associate at the Department of Media Studies, Tbingen University, Germany. Her research examines mediatisation processes and the social web, visibility in the digital age, internet shaming, and cyber bullying. Together with Bernhard Prksen, she recently wrote the book Der entfesselte Skandal: Vom Ende der Kontrolle im digitalen Zeitalter (The Unleashed Scandal: The End of Control in the Digital Age).
Tim Dwyer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney. His recent books are Media Convergence (Open University, 2010) and Legal and Ethical Issues in the Media (Palgrave, 2012).
Romayne Smith Fullerton, PhD, is an associate professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Western University, London, Ontario. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests encompass gender, minority issues, and journalism ethics. Most recently, she edited a book titled Covering Canadian Crime: What Journalists Know and the Public Should Question.
Julia Lefkowitz is completing her Masters degree in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris. Her research focuses on contemporary media discourse and material culture in the context of globalisation and postmodern consumer culture.
John Lloyd is a contributing editor for the Financial Times, co-founder and Director of Journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, Chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies, and an associate fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is also a columnist for La Repubblica of Rome and a columnist for Reuters.com. His books include Loss without Limit: The British Miners Strike (1986), Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia (1997), and What the Media are Doing to Our Politics (2004).
Heng Lu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. His research interest covers online public opinion, online user behaviour, and online sampling techniques.
Maggie Jones Patterson, Professor of Journalism at Duquesne University, was a reporter for the Pittsburgh Press. She writes about media ethics and gender issues. She co-authored Art Rooney: A Sporting Life; Behind the Lines: Case Studies in Investigative Reporting and Birth or Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political World.
Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media in the School of Arts, Brunel University. A former journalist, he is a member of the editorial board of the British Journalism Review, co-chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and a member of the advisory board of Index on Censorship. His most recent publication is Film and Video Censorship in Contemporary Britain (2011). He gave written and oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and is a contributor to the edited collection After Leveson (2012).
Adrian Quinn is a member of the Institute for Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. A reporter by training, he is a graduate of the Centre for Journalism Studies in Cardiff, Wales, and he recently completed his PhD with the Glasgow University Media Group.