Digital news and HIV criminalization : the social organization of convergence journalism /
"The Social Organization of Digital Knowledge about HIV Criminalization brings critical institutional ethnographic research to bear on two pressing social issues: HIV criminalization and digital news media in and age of convergence journalism. This book makes the distinctive argument that the s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Institutional ethnography: studies in the social organization of knowledge
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| Summary: | "The Social Organization of Digital Knowledge about HIV Criminalization brings critical institutional ethnographic research to bear on two pressing social issues: HIV criminalization and digital news media in and age of convergence journalism. This book makes the distinctive argument that the social organization of reporters' writing for digital news creates conditions in which it is challenging for journalists to disrupt longstanding patterns of stigmatizing and sensational reporting about HIV criminalization. HIV criminalization is a global activist and research concern and refers to the use of criminal law to charge and/or prosecute people living with HIV who, allegedly, have exposed their sex partners to HIV; failed to disclose their HIV-positive status; or transmit HIV sexually. HIV criminalization is an urgent and vexing social problem because it is well established that criminalizing HIV non-disclosure is contrary to human rights and public health principles and does not effectively reduce HIV transmission. For years, activists have expressed serious concerns about the stigmatizing and sensational way that HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream press. Analyses of news content about HIV criminalization confirm that reports of HIV criminal cases rely on sensational language, reproduce negative stereotypes of offenders, and exaggerate the threat that people living with HIV pose to the general public. This trend is especially pronounced when criminal cases related to HIV disclosure involve people of colour and people who are immigrants or refugees. Hastings situates the mainstream press as a site that produces and sustains the social relations of HIV criminalization--and makes extrapolations to other health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In so doing, the book not only enhances understandings of how public knowledge about health criminalization is constructed, it also offers insights into reporters' everyday newswork practices under conditions of convergence journalism that are widespread globally."-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 179 pages ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487544645 1487544642 9781487559908 1487559909 |