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Voyeur nation : media, privacy, and peering in modern culture

Author: Clay Calvert
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Series: Critical studies in communication and in cultural industries series
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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

It privileges watching and viewing media images over participation and interacting in democracy."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Calvert, Clay.
Voyeur nation.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606348675
Online version:
Calvert, Clay.
Voyeur nation.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000
(OCoLC)631567968
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Clay Calvert
ISBN: 0813366275 9780813366272
OCLC Number: 44426998
Description: v, 274 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Peeping Tom meets Jennifer Ringley --
Social forces driving mediated voyeurism --
Priming the economic and political pumps of mediated voyeurism --
Don't look now, but somebody's watching you --
Free press, free voyeurs? --
Check your camera at the castle door --
Seeing voyeurs in First Amendment theory.
Series Title: Critical studies in communication and in cultural industries series
Responsibility: Clay Calvert.
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Abstract:

"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.

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