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    The Reality and Hyperreality of Human Rights: Public Consciousness and the Mass Media

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    Editors
    Dickenson, R
    Katselli, E
    Murray, C
    Pedersen, O
    Pagination
    193 - 216 (23)
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
    Publisher URL
    http://www.cambridge.org/
    ISBN-10
    1107003903
    ISBN-13
    978-1107006935
    Location
    Cambridge, UK
    Journal
    Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: The End of an Era?
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    Abstract
    Most human rights scholarship remains highly formalist, with a focus on norms and institutions. However, at least as powerful as, if not more powerful than, those norms and institutions, are the mass media. Consonant with David Kennedy’s concern that rights discourse can privilege some interests at the expense of others, the media must be seen as the force that overwhelmingly decides which norms and abuses count, and which are neglected. Public consciousness of human rights emerges not out of political reality, but out of a media-generated ‘hyper-reality’, impermeable to some of the world’s most heinous abuses. The media remain immune from the values of even-handedness that are conceptually presupposed by human rights law. In principle, human rights shun any zero-sum game, whereby the rights of one person or group may be traded off against those of another. The media not only plays that game, but must play it, as a matter of sheer time and resources. A ‘Hollywoodisation’ of rights still further contributes to forging a hyper-reality that remains at odds with the realities of global human rights.
    Authors
    HEINZE, E
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    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/6240
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