Digital News and HIV Criminalization

The Social Organization of Convergence Journalism

Colin Hastings (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4464-5 (ISBN)

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Digital News and HIV Criminalization examines the daily practices of journalists to uncover the stigmatizing and sensational way that news media report on the issue of HIV criminalization.

For years, HIV activists and researchers have expressed deep concerns about the stigmatizing and sensational tone of news stories about HIV criminalization. Digital News and HIV Criminalization investigates the everyday work of journalists and uncovers how newswork routines are hooked into other institutions, including the criminal legal system, police, and public health, that regulate the daily lives of people living with HIV.

This lively institutional ethnography offers key insights into how the digital news media ecosystem is socially organized. It reveals that the fast-paced conditions of digital news media in the age of convergence journalism require the constant, rapid production of sensational news stories that will be consumed widely by online audiences, often resulting in news writing that perpetuates social harms connected to stigmatizing, racist, and anti-immigrant views. The book illustrates how biased reporting on HIV criminalization reflects broader trends in online news and presents opportunities for HIV activists to form coalitions with other groups negatively affected by the current landscape of convergence journalism.

Tracing how work that produces and circulates a standard genre of news story about HIV criminalization is coordinated across time and space, Digital News and HIV Criminalization offers a groundwork for political action aimed at disrupting the production of stigmatizing news stories.

Colin Hastings is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. HIV Criminalization, Activism, and News Media in Canada
2. The Everyday Work of Writing for Digital News
3. The Coordination of Police Work and Newswork
4. Activist Interventions
5. Conclusion
Appendix: Research Methods
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Institutional Ethnography
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-4464-2 / 1487544642
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4464-5 / 9781487544645
Zustand	Neuware