Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action Edited by Robin Andersen, Purnaka L. de Silva © 2017 – Routledge
Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Edited by Robin Andersen, Purnaka L. de Silva
© 2017 – Routledge
572 pages
Description
In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that have come to define the twenty-first century. Contributors, including media professionals and experts in humanitarian affairs, grapple with what kinds of media language, discourse, terms, and campaigns can offer enough context and background knowledge to nurture informed global citizens. Case studies of media practices, content analysis and evaluation of media coverage, and representations of humanitarian emergencies and affairs offer further insight into the ways in which strategic communications are designed and implemented in field of humanitarian action. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action was published on Monday, September 25, 2017.
Table of Contents
Preface by Sir Peter Sutherland, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development
Introduction
The Power of Media in Times of Humanitarian Crisis: Global Challenges, Constraints and Consequences - Robin Andersen and Purnaka L. de Silva
Section 1: Theories and Practice of Media and Their Impact on Humanitarian Action
1) Media, Politics, Compassion and Citizenship in the Post-Humanitarian Debate: Visual Storytelling and the Humanitarian Imaginary - Robin Andersen
2) Communicating for Impact, The Voice of the Victims: The Role of Media Design in Humanitarian and Human Rights Organizations - Tamara Alrifai
3) The Aljazeera Effect: News Media Coverage of Global Humanitarian Emergencies - Yehia Ghanem
4) Dignity in Times of Crises: Communicating the Need for Global Social Climate Change - Evelin Gerda Lindner and Linda Hartling
5) When Media is Used to Incite Violence: The United Nations, Genocide and Atrocity Crimes - Adama Dieng and Simona Cruciani
Section 2: Documentary, News, Human Traffickers and the Rescue Narratives of Global Migrations: Humanitarianism and Human Rights in an Age of Crisis
6) Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis, BBC 1 - Alexander Van Tulleken
7) A Humanitarian Battlefield: Redefining Border Control as Saving Victims - Pierluigi Musarò
8) From Pity to Control: Regulated Humanitarianism in German Media Coverage of Refugees and Asylum - Elke Grittman
9) Regional Implications of Human Trafficking and Forced Migration: Looking for Solutions in Libya - Purnaka L. de Silva
10) The Drowning of SPHERE in the Mediterranean: What Has Happened to Humanitarian Standards in Fortress Europe? - Pamela DeLargy
Section 3: Global Humanitarian Information Policy: Financing, Early Warning and Crisis Response
11) Forecast-based Financing, Early Warning and Early Action: A Cutting Edge Strategy for the International Humanitarian Community? - Alexandra Rüth, Laura Fontaine, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Konstanze Kampfer, Kevin Wyjad, Mathieu Destrooper, Irene Amuron, Richard Choularton, Meinrad Bürer and Rebecca Miller
12) Policy for Media and Communication in Humanitarian Action and Long-term Development Cooperation: Some Norwegian Experiences and Perspectives - Anne Skjelmerud and Ivar Evensmo
13) The Correlation of Humanitarian Aid, North-South Development Cooperation and the Media: Facts and Fiction - Ulrich Nitschke and Heike Wülfing
14) Global Emergency Preparedness and Multilateral Action in an Information Age - Henia Dakkak
Section 4: Famine, Violence and Compassion: The Politics of News, Perception, Aid and Security
15) Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics? - Suzanne Franks
16) Front Pages and Frontlines: How the News Cycle Impacted Humanitarian Assistance in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo - Heather Bourbeau
17) Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014 - Emma Heywood
18) News Frames and Global Terrorism Coverage in the UK and Norway: Context and Consequences for Humanitarian Issues - Maria Konow Lund and Eva-Karin Olsson
19) The Central American Refugee Crisis, Securitization, and the Media - Adrian Bergmann
Section 5: Voices at the Table, on the Internet and Over the Airwaves: Expanding the Global Dialogue on Science, Religion, Civil Society and Human Rights
20) Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Faith-based NGOs and Humanitarian Work - A Story from the World Humanitarian Summit - Azza Karam
21) The Role of Media in Public Advocacy and Countering Violent Extremism - Nadia Sraieb-Koepp
22) Ebola and AIDS: Harnessing Science and Human Nature to Combat Two Modern Plagues - Pat Fast
23) Plural + Media Literacy, and Voices of the Young: Platforms for Including Youth-Produced Media in Humanitarian Dialogue - Jordi Torrent
24) The Voice of the People in an Age of Environmental Crisis: Pope Francis, the Earth Community, Human Rights, and Independent Media - Robin Andersen and DeeDee Halleck
Section 6: Communication, Humanitarianism and Crisis: Case Studies from the Global Community
25) Horn of Africa: The Politics of Famine, Media Activism and Donor Aid - Aregawi Berhe
26) Disaster Management in The Philippines: Media, Unions and Humanitarian Action - Kim Scipes
27) Humanitarian Response and Media in the Arab Gulf Countries - Fadwa Ahmed Obaid
28) Quo Vadis? Ethnic and Cultural Genocide: Chaldean and Assyrian Christians and Yazidis in Northern Iraq and Syria - Purnaka L. de Silva
29) Child Protection and UNICEF’s Communication and Media Strategy: A Conflict-related Study from Mindanao, The Philippines - Priti Vaishnav
30) Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Corruption: Humanitarian Action and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Context of Media Influences and Power Dynamics in Latin America - Rudelmar Bueno de Faria
Section 7: Legacy Media from Fiction to Documentary: Representations of Crisis, Conflict, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacekeeping
31) HBO’s Treme and the Evolving Story of Hurricane Katrina: From Mythic News to Fictional Drama - Robin Andersen
32) "Shine a Little Light:" Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and Half the Sky - Heather McIntosh
33) "The Record of a Total Power Loss": First Five Days at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant - Hajime Ozaki
34) Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action - Shawn Powers
35) Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers - Pierre-Olivier François
Section 8: The Contradictions of Social Media and New Technologies of Communication: Information, Fake News, Activism and Witness
36) Key Communicators’ Perspectives on the Use of Social Media in Risks and Crises - Harald Hornmoen, Klas Backholm, Elsebeth Frey, Rune Ottosen, Gudrun Reimerth, FH Joanneum, Steen Steensen
37) Global Activism on Facebook: A Discursive Analysis of "Bring Back Our Girls" Campaign - Dorothy Njoroge
38) "Take my Picture": The Media Assemblage of Lone-Wolf Terror Events, Mobile Communication, and the News - Kenzie Burchell
39) Keeping Reporters Safe: The Ethics of Drone Journalism in a Humanitarian Crisis - Turo Uskali and Epp Lauk
40) Weaponizing Social Media: "The Alt-Right," the Election of Donald J. Trump and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism in the United States - Robin Andersen
Section 9: Media Industry and Government Influences on Policy and Humanitarian Affairs: The Propaganda of Warmaking
41) The Philanthrocapitalist and the Humanitarian Agenda: Motivations, Measurements and Media Power - Garrett Broad
42) The Impossibility of Humanitarian War: Libya and Beyond - Robin Andersen
43) The CNN Effect and Humanitarian Crisis - Piers Robinson
Conclusion
Assessing the Media and Humanitarian Landscape: Amidst Complexities, Global Peace and Prosperity Require New Directions and New Ethics and Expressions of Solidarity - Robin Andersen
About the Editors
Robin Andersen is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the author of four books, dozens of book chapters, journal articles and writes media criticism for a variety of publications. Her book A Century of Media: A Century of War won the 2007 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, the honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities. She helped develop the curriculum for Fordham University’s MA Program on Humanitarian Action.
Purnaka L. de Silva is Director at the Institute for Strategic Studies and Democracy Malta. He was previously Senior Advisor at the United Nations Global Compact in the Executive Office of Secretary General Kofi Annan and served as a Lecturer in the School of Politics and the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at The Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He has over thirty years of experience in conflict and peace studies with special focus on political violence, paramilitaries, counter-terrorism and transnational security, as well as the role of diplomacy and within the United Nations system. He is co-editor together with Ronaldo Munck of Postmodern Insurgencies: Political Violence, Identity Formation and Peacemaking in Comparative Perspective (2000 – Macmillan).
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o Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies
o Latin American & Hispanic Studies
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·Politics & International Relations
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