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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 |
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| 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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- Mass media.
- Voyeurism.
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- Massamedia.
- Recht op privacy.

