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Turning Up The Volume: The Amplification of Shame
Human Rights Quarterly ( IF 0.985 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 , DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2021.0006
Baekkwan Park , Amanda Murdie , David R. Davis

One important strategy human rights organizations (HROs) employ to draw attention to human rights abuses is "naming and shaming." By calling attention to government human rights violations, HROs hope to galvanize world public opinion and increase pressure on repressive regimes to halt abuses. While some HROs, like Amnesty International, communicate directly with their large membership bases, the vast majority of HROs rely on the media to transmit their message to the international community. Issuing reports and press releases are a major part of their efforts to make the international community aware of abuses. The more media coverage an HRO's reports and press releases receive, the more their message is "amplified." This article first develops a theory about how certain characteristics of the HRO and its targets matter for the organization's ability to amplify its message. The article then develops a new measure of "amplification" and uses this new measure to evaluate the factors that contribute to the amplification of HRO messages in the international media.



中文翻译:

调高音量:羞耻感的扩大

人权组织(HRO)用来提请人们注意侵犯人权行为的一项重要策略是“命名和羞辱”。人权高专办呼吁政府侵犯人权的行为引起关注,希望借此激发世界舆论,并加大对压制政权的压力,以制止虐待行为。大赦国际等一些人力资源主管直接与其庞大的会员群进行沟通,而绝大多数人力资源主管则依靠媒体将其信息传达给国际社会。发布报告和新闻稿是他们努力使国际社会认识到虐待行为的主要部分。HRO的报告和新闻稿收到的媒体报道越多,他们的信息就越“被放大”。本文首先提出一种有关HRO的某些特征及其目标如何影响组织增强其信息能力的理论。然后,本文开发了一种“放大”的新方法,并使用该新方法来评估在国际媒体中促成HRO消息放大的因素。

更新日期:2021-03-25
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