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The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Crisis
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 528-535
"Piers Robinson revisits the debates over what has been called the "CNN effect," a term that assumes media coverage of crises invariably leads to instigating humanitarian responses. While many claimed that interventions during humanitarian crises were influenced by media reporting of suffering peopl
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Digital Humanitarians: Citizen Journalists on the Virtual Front Line of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters
Journalism Practice, volume 11, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 213-228
"Eyewitness user-generated content has dominated the study of citizen journalism in crisis and conflict zones. However, the convergence of online networked technologies, like social media, collaborative mapping and real-time information management, gives ordinary people the capacity to commit acts o
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The New Boots on the Ground: NGOs in the Changing Landscape of International News
Journalism, volume 17, issue 4 (2015), pp. 401-416
"This article explores the role that nongovernmental organizations play in the changing landscape of international news. Drawing on archival analysis and 65 interviews with nongovernmental organization professionals, it examines the resource commitments and values guiding research at leading humanit
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Challenging humanitarian communication: An empirical exploration of Kony 2012
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 6 (2014), pp. 464-484
"In March 2012, American NGO Invisible Children released an online video about the crimes committed by Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Rapidly shared through social network sites, Kony 2012 soon earned the title of fastest spreading online video ever produced. At the s
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Hungry but silent: A content analysis of media reporting on the 2011-12 famine in Somalia
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Master Thesis (2013), 104 pp.
"This dissertation examines media coverage of the 2011-2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al Jazeera. Using both quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it asks why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of the coming famine. It further
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
London: Hurst (2013), x, 236 pp.
"The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr
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From Their Own Correspondent? New Media and the Changes in Disaster Coverage: Lessons to be Learnt
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 44 pp.
The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters
Journal of International Communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61
"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise
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The Neglect of Africa and the Power of Aid
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 1 (2010), pp. 71-84
"Using exclusive access to the BBC archive, the article examines how and why media coverage of Africa has been misleading and misinformed in the postcolonial period. It examines the extent to which the close relationship between media coverage and aid agencies has damaged the cause of informing the
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Völkermord auf Raten? Thematisierungsleistungen von europäischen Tageszeitungen zum Thema Darfur
Wien: Universität Wien, Magister Thesis (2010), 190 pp.
Disasters, Relief and the Media
Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing (2010), xxxiii, 267 pp.
"In 1993, this was the first book-length study of the representation of disasters in the media and of the marketing methods used by major relief agencies. In the preface to this new paperback edition which reviews the major developments in aid and in the media since the early 1990s, Jonathan Benthal
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Post-humanitarianism: Humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2010), pp. 107-126
"This article offers a trajectory of humanitarian communication, which suggests a clear, though not linear, move from emotion-oriented to post-emotional styles of appealing. Drawing on empirical examples, the article demonstrates that the humanitarian sensibility that arises out of these emerging st
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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
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Sterling: Kumarian Press (2008), xiv, 335 pp.
"This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia,
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Global Humanitarianism and the Changing Aid-Media Field: "Everyone Was Dying for Footage"
Journalism Studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878
"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S
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The CARMA Report on Western Media Coverage of Humanitarian Disasters
CARMA (2006), 17 pp.
The Spectatorship of Suffering
London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi: Sage (2006), 237 pp.
"This book is about the relationship between the spectators in countries of the west, and the distant sufferer on the television screen; the sufferer in Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, but also from New York and Washington, DC. How do we relate to television images of the distant suf
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Reaching Audiences Worldwide: Perspectives of International Broadcasting and Audience Research 2001/2002
Bonn: Conference of International Boradcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR);Paragon Verlag (2003), 131 pp.
Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills. International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis
Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2002), xiv, 429 pp.
"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrat
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Forgotten Humanitarian Crises: Conference on the Role of the Media, Decision-Makers and Humanitarian Agencies, Copenhagen, 23 Oktober 2002
Copenhagen: Danish Refugee Council (DRC) (2002), 29, viii pp.
