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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?
In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media
Simon Cottle, Glenda. Cooper (eds.)
Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166
"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term
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"A Horrific Photo of a Drowned Syrian Child": Humanitarian Photography and NGO Media Strategies in Historical Perspective
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 97, issue 900 (2015), pp. 1121-1155
"This article is a historical examination of the use of photography in the informational and fundraising strategies of humanitarian organizations. Drawing on archival research and recent scholarship, it shows that the figure of the dead or suffering child has been a centrepiece of humanitarian campa
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance
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Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xiv, 264 pp.
"Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of 'development' - defined broadly as problems of poverty and social deprivation, and the various agencies and processes seeking to address these - is normally one that i
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Afghanistan in the British Print Media Report
London: British & Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) (2014), 34 pp.
"Understanding how the British media has framed British aid efforts to Afghanistan is imperative to successfully campaign for continued public support for the long term development of the country. This is especially important given the scheduled troop withdrawal in 2014, which many commentators have
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A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa
London: Doctoral Thesis Goldsmiths University of London (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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Navigating Distant Worlds: International Development and Social Change in Interactive Web Documentary
Glocal Times, issue 20 (2014), 15 pp.
"At present, INGOs, development agencies and media producers who attempt to engage audiences in issues of international development and social change operate in an increasingly saturated media environment, which is content rich but time poor. This leads to a search for innovative, web 2.0-native way
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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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Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development and International NGOs
London: Tauris, paperback ed. (2014), xxi, 233 pp.
"Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty and inequality in the developing world. Representations of Poverty is the first comprehensive study of the communications and imagery used by international NGOs to represent the developing
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'The Things That We Have to Do: Ethics and Instrumentality in Humanitarian Communication
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 1 (2013), pp. 53-70
"This study critically reflects on a schism evident in debates surrounding ‘humanitarian communication’. On one hand, it is approached as embodying an ideal of ethical practice. On the other, ideal humanitarianism is deployed as the grounds for a critique, whereby ‘humanitarian practice’ is
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Humanitäre Hilfe und Medien
In: Handbuch Humanitäre Hilfe
Jürgen Lieser, Dennis Dijkzeul (eds.)
Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer (2013), pp. 171-182
"In diesem Kapitel geht es um die Rolle der Medien in der humanitären Hilfe und um das Zusammenspiel von Medien und humanitären Akteuren bei der Katastrophenberichterstattung und der damit verbundenen Spendenwerbung. Dabei wird insbesondere der Frage nachgegangen, wie Medien und Hilfsorganisatione
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Visualizers of Solidarity: Organizational Politics in Humanitarian and International Development NGOs
Visual Communication, volume 12, issue 3 (2013), pp. 295-314
"Discussion of the visual politics of solidarity, in relation specifically to the representation of suffering and development, has been grounded in analysis of images. This paper seeks to expand this debate by exploring the organizational politics that shape and are shaped by these images. The paper
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Evaluation of International and Non-Governmental Organizations’ Communication Activities: A 15 Year Systematic Review
Public Relations Review, volume 39, issue 5 (2013), pp. 572-574
"The purpose of this paper is to understand how intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations have evaluated their communication activities and adhered to principles of evaluation methodology from 1995–2010 based on a systematic review of available evaluation rep
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Need a Hand? No Thanks! Media Representations and Peace Building Indicators. The Case of UK Foreign Aid Programmes in Colombia
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, volume 7, issue 4 (2013), pp. 514-529
"This article considers research approaches often associated with media and journalism studies as complementary assessment strategies to inform decisions associated with evaluating foreign aid. In order to do so, the case of British foreign aid towards Colombia in the context of the War on Drugs is
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The Use of Stereotypical Images of Africa in Fundraising Campaigns
European Scientific Journal, volume 9, issue 11 (2013), pp. 20-31
"This article critically examines Unicef’s campaign in Slovenia, aimed at helping children in Ruanda, which caused huge public support in terms of the raised finances and visibility, but it also provoked a serious opposition from African people living in Slovenia and some academics. The article in
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Horizont Welt: Kommunikation und Medien als Herausforderung und Aufgabe
In: Horizont Weltkirche: Erfahrungen - Themen - Optionen und Perspektiven. Josef Sayer zu Ehren
Thomas Schreijäck, Martin Bröckelmann-Simon, Thomas Antkowiak, Albert Biesinger, Ottmar Fuchs (eds.)
Ostfildern: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag (2012), pp. 512-526
Creating Killer Facts and Graphics
Oxfam (2012), 4 pp.
"‘Killer facts’ are those punchy, memorable, headline-grabbing statistics that make reports special. They cut through the technicalities to fire people up about changing the world. They are picked up and repeated endlessly by the media and politicians. They are known as ‘killer’ facts becaus
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Representations of the Third World in NGO Advertising: Practicalities, Colonial Discourse and Western Understandings of Development
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
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Wider die Symbiose: Plädoyer für die Professionalisierung der Verhältnisse zwischen Hilfsorganisationen und Journalisten
Publizistik, volume 56, issue 3 (2011), pp. 327-340
"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur
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La cooperación en sus términos: Guía para profesionales de la comunicación
Farmacéuticos Mundi Extremadura (2011), 83 pp.
"Para la elaboración de una información veraz sobre Cooperación y los países del Sur, es necesario un empleo adecuado de la terminología, objetivo que Farmamundi pretende con el glosario de conceptos presentado en este documento, sin olvidar que hay tener en cuenta una serie de principios que c
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