Media Freedom: Promoting Human Rights or Inciting Human Wrongs?

• In Event: Media, Technology, and Measuring Human Rights

Brief Overview

This study includes a cross national times series analysis of the conditional effects of media freedom on human rights and a comparative case study of the role of media in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the 2002 Gujarat Riots.

Authors

• Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

• Carolina Cabral, University of Massachusetts-Lowell