Isbn: 9780813342368 - voyeur nation: media, privacy, and peering in modern culture (critical studies in communication and in cultural industries) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Explores the roots and causes of our increasingly voyeuristic society and argues against using the First Amendment to safeguard our right to peer into others' lives. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438. . 2008. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. From 24-hour-a-day 'girl cam' sites on the World Wide Web to trash-talk television shows like 'Jerry Springer' and reality television programs like 'Cops,' we've become a world of voyeurs. We like to watch others as their intimate moments, private facts, secrets, and dirty laundry are revealed. Voyeur Nation traces the evolution and forces driving what the author calls the 'voyeurism value.' Calvert argues that although spectatorship and sensationalism are far from new phenomena, today a confluence of factors-legal, social, political, and technological-pushes voyeurism to the forefront of our image-based world.The First Amendment increasingly is called on to safeguard our right, via new technologies and recording devices, to peer into the innermost details of others' lives without fear of legal repercussion. But Calvert argues that the voyeurism value contradicts the value of discourse in democracy and First Amendment theory, since voyeurism by its very nature involves merely watching without interacting or participating. It privileges watching and viewing media images over participating and interacting in democracy. …

Zustand: New. Explores the roots and causes of our increasingly voyeuristic society and argues against using the First Amendment to safeguard our right to peer into others lives.&Uumlber den AutorClay Calvert is an assistant professor of .