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"Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopoli ... more
"Meine Reise in die Slums von Bangladesch“ heißt ein Video, das Julien Bam im Mai 2019 auf Youtube veröffentlicht. Julien Bam ist mit mehr als fünf Millionen Followern einer der erfolgreichsten deutschen Influencer. Seine aufwändig produzierten Clips sind meist laut und albern, er singt und ta ... more
"Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted a nationwid ... more

Media and Development

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.
"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat ... more
"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more

Celebrities in Global Development

In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 128-136
"Celebrities champion global development, bringing public visibility to poverty while spotlighting neoliberal strategies as heroic adventures. The wealthy few are applauded for their noble gestures toward helping the projected grateful beneficiaries. These narratives of individual sacrifice and bene ... more

The Next Ronald Reagan? Celebrity, Social Entrepreneurism, and the Case of Brazilian TV Host Luciano Huck

In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 397-406
"Taking the participation in social and humanitarian campaigns of TV host and social entrepreneur Luciano Huck as a case in point, this chapter investigates how new models of celebrity civic engagement are becoming increasingly popular in Brazil. Huck belongs to a growing group of Brazilian celebrit ... more
"Matthias Kuhnert geht der Frage nach, wie zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen bei der Bevölkerung um Unterstützung für ihre Tätigkeit warben. Am Beispiel zweier britischer NGOs, War on Want und Christian Aid, wird deutlich, welche Emotionen humanitäre Organisationen einsetzten, um ihre Botschaften ... more

Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding ... more
"This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12, ... more
"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 ... more
"[This book] examines the work of celebrity advocacy and lobbying in international development. Its purpose is to understand the alliances resulting, their history, consequences, wider contexts and implications. It argues that celebrity advocacy signals a new aspect of elite rule. For populist celeb ... more
"Celebrities now regularly engage with human trafficking policy and practice. A “sexy” topic, human trafficking is not only susceptible to alluring, fetishistic, and voyeuristic narratives, but plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer-of-the-victim ideal that receives a huge amount of attention from ... more