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Charity representations of distant others: An analysis of UK charity visual communications in direct mail campaigns
School of Global Development University of East Anglia (2025), 29 pp.
"In this phase of our research on charity advertising, we aimed to examine how INGOs represent distant others in direct mail communications compared to newspaper advertisements, building on findings from earlier studies. While the direct mail format offers greater potential for nuanced storytelling,
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Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2919-2947
"This study investigates some of the communicative practices displayed by readers of vertically scrolling digital comics known as webtoons. A big-data emotion detection technique is used to identify, categorize, and analyze the contents of more than 14 million comments posted during the first year o
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Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising?
Cognition, volume 245, issue 105735 (2024), [no pag.]
"Aid organizations, activists, and the media often use graphic depictions of human suffering to elicit sympathy and aid. While effective, critics have condemned these practices as exploitative, objectifying, and deceptive, ultimately labeling them ‘poverty porn.’ This paper examines people's eth
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Journalism Ethics: 21 Essentials from Wars to Artificial Intelligence
Key Guidance
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1st ed. (2024), 241 pp.
"This concise and authoritative work offers the latest guidance on journalism ethics for students and media professionals and will help empower news consumers to make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of their sources of information. It offers advice on all aspects of journalism ethics in
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Digitale Ethik
Top Insights
Baden-Baden: Nomos; Verlag Karl Alber (2024), 661 pp.
"Das neue umfassende Standardwerk für den Bereich der Digitalen Ethik. Das Handbuch verschafft einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen und Besonderheiten der Ethik im digitalen Raum und versammelt namhafte Expert:innen zu folgenden Themenfeldern: Theoretische Zugänge (Deontologische Ansätze,
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Das Afrikabild in der visuellen Kommunikation von Entwicklungsorganisationen
Lausanne et al.: Peter Lang (2023), 417 pp.
"Die visuelle Kommunikation von Entwicklungsorganisationen ist geprägt von Spendenplakaten. Anhand einer eingängigen Bildsprache wird Aufmerksamkeit generiert. Mit einer postkolonialen Perspektive zeigt die Autorin auf, wie das vermittelte Afrikabild visuellen Stereotypen folgt, die bis in die Kol
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The Use of Imagery in Global Health: An Analysis of Infectious Disease Documents and a Framework to Guide Practice
Lancet Global Health, volume 11 (2022), pp. 155-164
"This work has highlighted the biased approaches in the use of imagery by those who hold power in global health. It is crucial to engage with these issues and to identify how we can work to treat individuals featured in global health imagery equitably, regardless of their circumstances, geography, r
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Ethics of Image Journalism
Internews (2021), 9 pp.
"For photo and video journalists, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised difficult questions regarding how they show the grief of the victims and survivors, and the courage of medical workers to illustrate their stories and show the deadly impact of the virus, without exploiting grief and without insertin
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Ethical Traditions in Humanitarian Photography and the Challenges of the Digital Age: Four Conversations with Canadian Communications Officers
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 57-64
"As the production, content, and display of humanitarian images faced the requirements of digital media, humanitarian organizations struggled to keep equitable visual practices. Media specialists reflect on past and current uses of images in four Canadian agencies: the Canadian Red Cross, the Multic
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Visual Ethics: A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Media Makers
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xx, 226 pp.
"The book covers the definitions and uses of six philosophies, analytical methods, cultural awareness, visual reporting, documentary, citizen journalists, advertising, public relations, typography, graphic design, data visualizations, cartoons, motion pictures, television, computers and the web, aug
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Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2020), xviii, 206 pp.
"Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods aims to unpack the multiple considerations for ethics and integrity that accompany research methods involving visual data generation and analysis. This volume focuses on the media of photography and film. Contributing authors cover a variety of topics
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The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2020), xv, 534 pp.
"This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social sci
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Media Ethics: Issues and Cases
Lanham; Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 9th ed. (2019), xv, 380 pp.
"The ninth edition of Media Ethics: Issues and Cases has been updated to reflect the most pressing ethical issues in media. Featuring 25 new cases on hot topic issues from fake news to drones and a new chapter on social justice, this authoritative case book gives students the tools to make ethical d
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Photographing Modern Slavery: Recommendations for Responsible Practice
Nottingham: Rights Lab University of Nottingham (2019), 30 pp.
"1. The current use of imagery, particularly photography, in the anti-slavery movement risks harming anti-slavery efforts and survivors through misinformation and re-exploitation [...] 2. In order to utilise photography effectively and ethically, organisations looking to generate or use photography
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The Practice and Ethics of Participatory Visual Methods for Community Engagement in Public Health and Health Science
Key Guidance
Cape Town: Livelihoods Foundation (2019), 116 pp.
"This handbook provides guidelines on the practice and ethics of participatory visual methods (PVM) with emphasis on their use in low and middle income countries (LMIC) for community and public engagement in health and health science. The guidelines are drawn from the hands-on experience of the auth
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and
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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del
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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 320 pp.
"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag
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La importancia de la imagen en el periodismo: El fotoperiodismo y los conflictos terroristas
La Laguna: Thesis Universidad de La Laguna (2017), 53 pp.
The People in the Pictures: Vital Perspectives on Save the Children’s Image Making. A Research Project to Understand How Contributors and Their Communities Experience and Perceive Save the Children’s Communications and its Image-Making Process
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Save the Children (2017), xi, 81 pp.
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t
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