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Distant Suffering Online: The Unfortunate Irony of Cyber-Utopian Narratives
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 7 (2015), pp. 637-653
"The internet is often celebrated for the abundant opportunities it appears to offer citizens to become more informed about and inspired to act on issues related to international development and distant suffering. But to what extent do users actually make use of such opportunities? And what social p
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The Role of Celebrities in Mediating Distant Suffering
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 18, issue 4 (2015), pp. 449-466
"How effective are celebrities, not just in helping to draw attention to distant suffering, but in actually regulating spectators’ mediated experiences of the lives of distant strangers? What function does the perceived authenticity of a celebrity play in their role as mediator? This article seeks
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Media and Development
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2014), 231 pp.
"From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and
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How Distant Others Are Mediated by UK Television
University of East Anglia, Doctoral Thesis (2011), 346 pp.
"The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate how UK television shapes spectators’ experiences of distant Others. Specifically, I aim to build on and extend existing work in this field, and particularly the work of Lilie Chouliaraki in Spectatorship of Suffering, in three directions. Firstly,
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"La web 2.0 ha llegado también a las televisiones. El contenido generado por los usuarios ha crecido en todas las cadenas del mundo. Sin embargo, no se trata todavía de una práctica extendida. La UNESCO quiere impulsar este fenómeno a través de esta guía. En ella, se recogen orientaciones para
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Guidelines for Broadcasters on Promoting User-Generated Content and Media and Information Literacy
London; Paris: Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA); UNESCO (2009), 58 pp.
"In 2008, the CBA and UNESCO published the results of a survey of 72 Commonwealth broadcasters which looked at the nature of user-generated content (UGC). It considered what use they make of UGC and their involvement in promoting media and information literacy (MIL). The survey identified a lack of
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