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  title info:
    title: Digital news and HIV criminalization
    sub title: the social organization of convergence journalism
  name:
    name part: Hastings, Colin
    name part: (Assistant professor)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 179 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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 o…
  table of contents: HIV Criminalization, Activism, and News Media in Canada -- The Everyday Work of Writing for Digital News -- The Coordination of Police Work and Newswork -- Activist Interventions.
  note: Colin Hastings.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: HIV infections
    topic: Press coverage
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Press coverage
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: HIV-positive persons
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Infections à VIH
    topic: Couverture de presse
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Sida
    topic: Couverture de presse
    geographic: Canada
  classification: PN4914.A44 H37 2024
  classification: 070.4/496169792
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Institutional ethnography: studies in the social organization of knowledge
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Digital news and HIV criminalization
    name:
      name part: Hastings, Colin (Assistant professor)
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1428984299
  identifier: 9781487544645
  identifier: 1487544642
  identifier: 9781487559908
  identifier: 1487559909
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240408
    record change date: 20250422161435.0
    record identifier: in00005644477
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng