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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sobel, Meghan

Titel

Sex trafficking and the media : perspectives from the United States and Thailand

Ist Teil von

• Media, culture and social change in Asia series : 55 (Alle Bände)
• Media, culture and social change in Asia series : 55

Ort / Verlag

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• "Explores how sex trafficking has been reported in the media. The book is set in the context of reportage of this human rights abuse in two varying political landscapes...the United States being a developed democracy and Thailand experiencing continued political turmoil including a May 2014 coup d'état and an accompanying crackdown on free expression by the ruling military junta. In doing so, the book shows how there are great similarities between the two countries in the way the issue is misrepresented. Drawing on content analysis of news coverage in the United States and Thailand as well as interviews with journalists, anti-trafficking advocates, survivors of sex trafficking and consensual sex workers, this book illuminates reasons why coverage is framed in the way(s) that it is, how anti-trafficking advocates can act as media advocates to push coverage in new directions, and how journalistic functions are similar and different in the two countries"...