Professional paper
The Protection of Children's Privacy in the Croatian Media: Legislation and Practice
Antea Boko
orcid.org/0000-0002-5881-3536
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The media often reports about children no matter the topic is. Despite the existence of regulations governing the way of reporting, previous research has shown that journalists, editors and other media workers do not comply with the set of directives. Driven by profit, they use sensationalism and thus violate children's rights. The aim of this paper was to present the state of media sensitivity to the issue of children's privacy in Croatia. The author started from the research question respecting the media code of ethics, laws and acts that regulate children's rights when reporting on children and the thesis that they often violate the code, laws and acts that prescribe children's rights when reporting on children. This paper provides an overview of existing regulations and advice when reporting on children, offers a review of previous research on the subject, linking them to new example. The results showed that the initial thesis was confirmed because the media still do not respect legal and ethical provisions when reporting on children and time violating their right to privacy.
Keywords
children; children in the media; children's rights; protection of privacy; professional principles
Hrčak ID:
265901
URI
Publication date:
25.11.2021.
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