Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongside a range of professional, expert and insider views, the book brings together some of the most authoritative voices in the field today. It examines how the fast-changing nature of communications throws up new challenges but also new possibilities for humanitarian relief and intervention. It includes case studies deployed in recent humanitarian crises, and significant new communication developments including social media, crisis mapping, SMS alerts, big data and new hybrid communications. And against the backdrop of an increasingly globalized and threat-filled world, the book explores how media and communications, both old and new, are challenging traditional relations of communication power.
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Introduction: Humanitarianism, Communications, and Change
Part One: Humanitarianism and Communications in a Changing World
Chapter One: Humanitarianism, Human Insecurity, and Communications: What’s Changing in a Globalised World?
Chapter Two: Media Futures and Humanitarian Perspectives in an Age of Uncertainty and Complexity
Chapter Three: From Buerk to Ushahidi: Changes in TV Reporting of Humanitarian Crises
Chapter Four: Digital Humanitarianism
Part Two: Cash, Charity, and Communication
Chapter Five: ‘Give us your ****ing money’: A Critical Appraisal of TV and the Cash Nexus
Chapter Six: NGOs, Media, and Public Understanding 25 Years On: An Interview with Paddy Coulter, Former Head of Media, Oxfam
Chapter Seven: 3,000 Words that Explain How to Build a Powerful Fanbase, Make Your Message Go Viral, and Raise Millions for Your Cause
Part Three: The Politics of Pity and the Poverty of Representation
Chapter Eight: International NGOs, Global Poverty, and the Representations of Children
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 292 pp., num. ill.
Simon Cottle is Professor of Media and Communications, Head of School and Director of the Mediatized Conflict Research Group in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Glenda Cooper is a former national newspaper journalist and Lecturer in Journalism at City University London.
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