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Storytelling for Social Change: Leveraging Documentary and Comedy for Public Engagement in Global Poverty
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
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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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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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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
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
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"These Grey Areas": How and Why Freelance Work Blurs INGOs and News Organizations
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
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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production
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
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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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Distant Suffering Online: The Unfortunate Irony of Cyber-Utopian Narratives
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
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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
'Intimacy at a Distance' in Humanitarian Communication
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
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Media and Development
Deep Insights
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
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"Wegsehen darf man nicht - aber auch nicht alles zeigen": Bildethik aus Sicht des katholischen Hilfswerks Adveniat. Ein Gespräch mit Nicola von Bonn
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
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A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa
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
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The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication
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
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The Marketization of Foreign News
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
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Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World
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
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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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How Distant Others Are Mediated by UK Television
University of East Anglia, Doctoral Thesis (2011), 346 pp.
"The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate how UK television shapes spectators’ experiences of distant Others. Specifically, I aim to build on and extend existing work in this field, and particularly the work of Lilie Chouliaraki in Spectatorship of Suffering, in three directions. Firstly,
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Our Neighbour's View: Australian Media Coverage of Papua New Guinea
In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?
Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 62-72
