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- Communication in international development: doing good or looking good? (2018)
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- 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 (2017)
- The new boots on the ground: NGOs in the changing landscape of international news (2015)
- Global humanitarianism and media culture (2019)
- Communication in international development: doing good or looking good? (2018)
- Imaging humanitarianism: NGO identity and the iconography of childhood (2008)
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Global humanitarianism and media culture
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
(2019), x, 288 pp., illustrations, figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-1-5261-1730-4 (pdf); 978-1-5261-1729-8 (hbk)
CC BY-NC-ND
"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary ...
Communication in international development: doing good or looking good?
London; New York:
Routledge
(2018), xiv, 182 pp., index
ISBN 9781138569928 (pbk); 9781138569911 (hbk); 9780203703977 (online)
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
Save the Children
(2017), xi, 81 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.73-74
"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...
The new boots on the ground: NGOs in the changing landscape of international news
Journalism, volume 17, issue 4 (2015), pp. 401-416
"This article explores the role that nongovernmental organizations play in the changing landscape of international news. Drawing on archival analysis and 65 interviews with nongovernmental organization professionals, it examines the resource commitments and values guiding research at leading humanit...
"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...
Representations of global poverty: aid, development and international NGOs
London:
Tauris
(2014) Pbk. ed., xxi, 233 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.210-221, index
ISBN 978-0-85773-261-3 (ebook); 978-1-78076-773-4 (pbk)
Other Editions: hbk ed. 2012
"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 ...
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...
Imaging humanitarianism: NGO identity and the iconography of childhood
Antipode, volume 40, issue 4 (2008), pp. 632-657
"This paper asks how images of children are used by prominent signatories to NGO codes of conduct. The answer is that images of childhood and shared codes of conduct are both means through which development and relief NGOs produce themselves as rights-based organisations. The iconography of childhoo...
Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "everyone was dying for footage"
Journalism studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878
"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S...
