Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism). This item is unavailable.Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

The media today are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye be they politicians and celebrities over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have had latitude to name and shame malfeasance of public officials and criminal behaviour, but disputes are increasingly emerging over disclosure of non-criminal personal behaviour, family issues and sexual orientation, leading commentators to question what information can really be described as being in the public interest . In this book, leading academics, commentators and journalists consider the extent to which privacy is warranted for activities outside the scope of their professional lives or when disclosure reveals duplicity related to reputations, brands, images and public personas built and conveyed through media by political and celebrity figures.

Julian Petley is Professor of Journalism and Screen Media and Director of Journalism Research at Brunel University. He is a regular contributor to Index on Censorship and also writes for The Guardian. His publications include Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (with Chas Critcher, Jason Hughes, and Amanda Rohloff), Censorship: A Beginner's Guide and Censoring the Moving Image (with Philip French).