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The State of Humanitarian Journalism
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
London: Routledge (2018), xxiv, 572 pp.
"In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses
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Digital Volunteer Networks and Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
Digital Journalism, volume 6, issue 7 (2018), pp. 928-944
"Digital technologies and big data are rapidly transforming humanitarian crisis response and changing the traditional roles and powers of its actors. This article looks at a particular aspect of this transformation—the appearance of digital volunteer networks—and explores their potential to act
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Media and Development
Deep Insights
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
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Media, Politics, Compassion and Citizenship in the Post-Humanitarian Imaginary
"Andersen explores the definition of humanitarian communication, its history, language, visual renderings, and narrative structures. Building on the historical effects of media depictions and their relationship to aid appeals and public response, the chapter engages the concepts of empathy and compa
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa
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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 400-418
"This article examines how three Chinese and two British newspapers sourced content from social media in their coverage of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the 2013 Ya'an Earthquake, and the 2015 Tianjin Explosion. The media outlets citing of social media content present different patterns in line with
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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How Media Portrayals of Suffering Influence Willingness to Help: The Role of Solvability Frames
Journal of Media Psychology, volume 31 (2017), pp. 92-102
"When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by eliciting sympathy, while those that prompt a more rational respon
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Front Pages and Frontlines: How the News Cycle Impacted Humanitarian Assistance in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
"Heather Bourbeau finds that in a crisis, media professionals and humanitarian aid providers negotiate a delicate balance between thorough and consistent coverage, and coverage that sensationalizes a crisis and leads to hysteria, misery, and fatigue. In "F" Bourbeau compares the media coverage of th
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Keeping Reporters Safe: The Ethics of Drone Journalism in a Humanitarian Crisis
"In recent years, authorities have banned the use of drones for journalism in many countries. Therefore, it is valid to claim that practicing drone journalism often leads to questions of freedom of the press, the right to receive ideas and information, and also the freedom of expression. Clearly, th
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In/visible Conflicts: NGOs and the Visual Politics of Humanitarian Photography
Media, Culture & Society, volume 39, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1178-1193
"This article examines the diverse factors shaping the involvement of non-governmental organisation (NGO) with humanitarian photography, paying particular attention to cooperative relationships with photojournalists intended to facilitate the generation of visual coverage of crises otherwise margina
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Audiences and Disasters: Analyses of Media Diaries Before and After an Earthquake and a Massive Fire
Journal of Communication, volume 66, issue 4 (2016), pp. 519-541
"Media diaries of 36 Chilean adults were being collected as two disasters unfolded: an earthquake on the northern coast and 11 days later a massive fire in Valparaiso. From an audience reception theoretical approach, these events provide a unique opportunity to compare people's engagement with media
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Framing Famine: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2011 Famine in Somalia
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 100-119
"This study examines media coverage of the 2011–2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al-Jazeera. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it explores why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of its inevitable unf
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Affirmative Duties: The Institutional and Individual Capabilities Required in Disaster Coverage
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 2 (2016), pp. 216-230
"Most analysis of media coverage of disaster has a normative edge. This paper outlines a philosophical basis for establishing normative standards for news coverage of natural hazards and human-based risk. It begins with a top-down, or system-oriented, epistemological approach to disasters and risk.
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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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Audiences in the Face of Distant Suffering: New Challenges for Old Ideals?
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 7 (2015), pp. 603-707
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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Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.
"How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the
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