Volume six in a series on modern communications studies, this collection of ten essays explores the nexus of human rights and media in the context of traditional and mainstream outlets of mass communication. The work is divided into sections covering human rights media and civil society, and media discourse on human rights issues, and individual articles address such topics as the rhetoric and ideology of human rights in the media, war making and propaganda, child labor and photojournalism and disability and the media in the twenty-first century. Contributors include academics in communications, journalism and public policy fields as well as professional journalists from a variety of international institutions. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)