Author

Publication

2000 - Westview Press, Boulder, Colo, Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

68,500 words, Guess

Page Count

274 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100813366275
  • ISBN-139780813366272
  • Goodreads508705
  • Library of Congress Control Number00043311
  • OCLC Control Number44426998
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780813366272
  • Open LibraryOL6787103M

Classifications

  • DDC302.23
  • LCCP91 .C28 2000
  • LCCP91.C28 2000
and 1 more
  • LCCP 91 C28 2000

Description

"Voyeur Nation traces the evolution and forces driving what the author calls the 'voyeurism value.' Calvert argues that although spectatorship and sensationalism are far from new phenomena, today a confluence of factors - legal, social, political, and technological - pushes mediated voyeurism to the forefront of our image-based world.". "The First Amendment increasingly is called on to safeguard our right, via new technologies and recording devices, to peer into the innermost details of others' lives without fear of legal repercussion. But Calvert argues that the voyeurism value sacrifices privacy and contradicts the value of discourse in democracy and First Amendment theory, since voyeurism by its very nature involves merely watching without interacting or participating. It privileges watching and viewing media images over participation and interacting in democracy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Voyeur nation: media, privacy, and peering in modern cultureWestview Press2000-01-01

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