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Dóchas Guide to Ethical Communications
Dublin: Dóchas (2023), 22 pp.
"The Dóchas Guide to Ethical Communications is a resource for international humanitarian and development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) when designing and implementing their communications. The guidelines are founded on three core values: respect for the dignity of people concerned; belief i
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Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change
New York; London: Routledge (2022), vi, 205 pp.
"An international line-up of authors first discuss communication practices, strategies, and media uses by NGOs, providing insights into the specifics of NGO programs for social change goals and reveal particular sets of tactics NGOs commonly employ. The book then presents a set of case studies of NG
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Comunicación solidaria en el capitalismo digital: Teorías, metodologías y prácticas
Barcelona: Gedisa (2022), 157 pp.
"El presente libro realiza una aproximación a la Comunicación Solidaria Digital tal y como está tomando forma en el capitalismo digital o de plataformas. A partir de una aproximación teórico-metodológica y del estudio de casos significativos, se proponen vías para pensar este campo específic
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Who owns the story? Live financial testing of charity vs participant led storytelling in fundraising
London College of Communication; University of East Anglia (2022), 53 pp.
"This project demonstrates that there is another way of gathering and sharing the stories of people living in poverty around the world. Until now, there has been much positive and enthusiastic discussion amongst INGO communications and fundraising professionals about how to change the way we tell st
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Human Rights in Survival Mode: Rebuilding Trust and Supporting Digital Workers in the Philippines
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Asia Foundation (2021), 63 pp.
"This report summarizes powerful research on the Philippines’ human rights sector in “survival mode” under Rodrigo Duterte’s violent regime. Historically known as the most active civil society in Asia, the Philippines human rights movement has faced an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy whil
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Grundlagen der globalen Kommunikation: Medien - Systeme - Lebenswelten
München; Tübingen: UVK (2021), 432 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet die erste Gesamtübersicht aller wesentlichen Felder der globalen Kommunikation in organisierten Sozialsystemen (Massenmedien, Politik, Wirtschaft, Zivilgesellschaft) und Lebenswelten (Netzgemeinschaften, Kleingruppen, Individuum) auf einer einheitlichen und interdisziplinären
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Ethical Traditions in Humanitarian Photography and the Challenges of the Digital Age: Four Conversations with Canadian Communications Officers
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 57-64
"As the production, content, and display of humanitarian images faced the requirements of digital media, humanitarian organizations struggled to keep equitable visual practices. Media specialists reflect on past and current uses of images in four Canadian agencies: the Canadian Red Cross, the Multic
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Nicht-staatliche Akteure
"Verbände, NGOs und soziale Bewegungen sind nicht-staatliche Akteure, die für moderne Demokratien eine relevante Vermittlungsfunktion zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft ausüben. Sie treten für soziale, ökologische, kulturelle oder politische Interessen ein. Ihre Kommunikationsinstrumente und -stra
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Repräsentation ferner Wirklichkeiten: Umstrittene Wissensproduktion in wissenschaftlicher und humanitärer Praxis
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 387 pp.
"Welche Darstellungen von ‚fernen Anderen‘ finden im Globalen Norden Verbreitung und Anklang? Welche nicht? Wer spricht für wen? Wer bleibt ungehört? Und: Weshalb scheint es zunehmend wichtig und geboten, diese Fragen zu stellen? Die sozialwissenschaftliche Studie analysiert und diskutiert kon
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Las redes sociales como mecanismo de empoderamiento de las ONGD: El caso de Acción contra el Hambre, Ayuda en Acción y Oxfam Intermón
"El análisis de contenido y las entrevistas en profundidad han revelado que las redes sociales son utilizadas por las tres ONGD como altavoz para amplificar su mensaje, pero no para construir comunidad e incitar el diálogo. Hay un déficit manifiesto por interpelar a los usuarios y por promover qu
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The Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication: Strategic Communication in Civil Society Organizations
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2019), xxv, 262 pp.
"By understanding the ontogenesis of NGOs as civil society organizations from a historical-anthropological, communicational, sociological, economical and managerial perspective, Evandro Oliveira outlines the Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication (ITNC). This proposes the ontological principles, an
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and
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Communication
"This chapter focuses on one of the key areas within the field of humanitarian communication, namely the symbolic construction of distant suffering in image, text and sound. In particular, the chapter examines humanitarian communication produced by humanitarian non-government organizations (NGOs) fo
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Who's Reporting Africa Now? Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xiv, 280 pp.
"As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations have begun to expand into news reporting. But why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What are the effects of this on the kinds of stories told about Africa?
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NGOs as Newsmakers: The Changing Landscape of International News
New York: Columbia University Press (2018), 224 pp.
"In NGOs as Newsmakers, Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Drawing on interviews, observations, and content analysis, he charts the dramatic growth in NGO news-making efforts, examines whether these efforts increase
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How do non-governmental organizations influence media coverage of conflict? The case of the Syrian conflict, 2011–2014
Media, War & Conflict, volume 11, issue 1 (2018), pp. 149-171
"It is often argued that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly visible in media discourses on armed conflict and thus play a growing role in shaping states’ foreign policies. However, there is little investigation of their influence on specific conflict coverage and what t
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Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age
New York: Routledge (2018), 252 pp.
"Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with journalists and aid agency press officers, participant observations at the Guardian, BBC and Save the Children UK, as well as the ordinary people who created the words and pictures that framed these disasters, this book reveals how humanitarian disa
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The Work of Women’s NGOs on Commercial Radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and Shortcomings
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 59-75
"This article examines the work of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on West Bank radio as they represent women, a marginalized community, within a patriarchal, traditional and religious society. It also examines the commercial and societal difficulties faced by radio stations in their
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"Across the board, respondents called for NGOs to diversify their strategies. As well as children, they wanted to see images of parents and grandparents, local development workers and doctors, for example. They highlighted the importance of maintaining the dignity of the individuals portrayed, espec
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The People in the Pictures: Vital Perspectives on Save the Children’s Image Making. A Research Project to Understand How Contributors and Their Communities Experience and Perceive Save the Children’s Communications and its Image-Making Process
Deep Insights
Save the Children (2017), xi, 81 pp.
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t
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