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Storytelling for Social Change: Leveraging Documentary and Comedy for Public Engagement in Global Poverty

Lauren Feldman Caty Borum Chattoo

Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 678-701

"Narrative is essential for public engagement with global poverty. Stand Up Planet, a documentary about global development, was produced to evaluate the effects of a little-utilized nonfiction comedy narrative. Using a pretest–posttest experimental design, this study examines shifts in U.S. audien ... more

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

Heather McIntosh

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

Audiences in the Face of Distant Suffering: New Challenges for Old Ideals?

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 7 (2015), pp. 603-707

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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production

David Conrad

Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2015), pp. 275-288

"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa-funded by the Pulitzer Center on C ... more

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Distant Suffering Online: The Unfortunate Irony of Cyber-Utopian Narratives

Martin Scott

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 ... more

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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

London: Pluto Press (2015), viii, 215 pp.

"In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed f ... more

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The Role of Celebrities in Mediating Distant Suffering

Martin Scott

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 ... more

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"These Grey Areas": How and Why Freelance Work Blurs INGOs and News Organizations

Kate Wright

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (2015), pp. 989-1009

"International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time s ... more

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Media and Development
Top Insights

Martin Scott

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 ... more

"Wegsehen darf man nicht - aber auch nicht alles zeigen": Bildethik aus Sicht des katholischen Hilfswerks Adveniat. Ein Gespräch mit Nicola von Bonn

Nicola van Bonn, Petra Hemmelmann

Communicatio Socialis, volume 47, issue 4 (2014), pp. 438-447

"Natürlich ist Grundlage unserer Arbeit auch der Pressekodex. Darüber hinaus haben wir überlegt, was ist das Besondere von uns als katholisches Lateinamerika-Hilfswerk, als „Adveniat“. Wie spielt das mit rein in unsere Bildethik, unsere Ethik in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, die Ethik unserer B ... more

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'Intimacy at a Distance' in Humanitarian Communication

Shani Orgad, Bruna Irene Seu

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 916-934

"Based on analysis of 17 in-depth interviews with professionals in 10 UK-based international NGOs engaged in planning, designing and producing humanitarian communications, this article explores how intimacy figures in NGOs' thinking about and practice of humanitarian communication. Drawing on discus ... more

A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa

Katherine Wright

London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 495 pp.

"Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists’ use of NGO-provided multim ... more

Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World

Philip Seib (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 204 pp.

"For Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Arab revolutions of 2011 offered an opportunity that news executives dream about. It was the biggest story of the century, it was happening on home territory, and the channel had the expertise and the reportorial staff on the ground at levels its competitors could ... more

The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication

Bella Mody

Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58

"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have ... more

Reviewing the World: A Review of the CBA WorldView Project, International Coverage and the UK Media Industry

Martin Scott, Charlotte Jenner, Rose Smith

UK Aid;CBA WorldView (2012), 48 pp.

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The Marketization of Foreign News

Bella Mody

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115

"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h ... more

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Representations of the Third World in NGO Advertising: Practicalities, Colonial Discourse and Western Understandings of Development

Lisa Rideout

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 25-41

"This article examines the many factors influencing NGO advertisements and their visual representations of the Third World. Focusing on two specific advertisements, this work explores the influence of practical constraints and specific marketing techniques. Applying the work of Edward Said and Homi ... more

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Our Neighbour's View: Australian Media Coverage of Papua New Guinea

Martha Ginau, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Lee Duffield, Amanda Watson

In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Michael McManus; Patrick Matbob (eds.)

Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 62-72

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The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters

Stijn Joye

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 ... more