Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. But whereas extant knowledge about media and global humanitarianism focuses primarily on issues related to discourses and images of distant suffering in mass media this dissertation argues that contemporary humanitarianism is incomprehensible without a detailed understanding of the socio-technological processes of digital mediation through which the suffering of global south others is increasingly witnessed, pitied and responded to by caring publics in the global north. Offeri...
The social media boom has brought about a new age of communications and connectedness in our world. ...
Within humanitarian discourse, there is a prevailing narrative: the powerful liberal heroes are savi...
The role that technologies have historically played in producing and reproducing global inequalities...
Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects ...
The impacts and influences of globalised digitalisation has increased its presence within the politi...
The 2013 World Disasters Report uses the term 'humanitarian technology' to refer to the empowering n...
Debates are ongoing on the limits of - and possibilities for - sovereignty in the digital era. While...
‘If something happens somewhere in the world – regardless of whether it is banal or profound – someo...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015Over the last decade, new technologies and data source...
While the question of how images matters in world politics is a pertinent issue in contemporary Inte...
This article aims to deconstruct the myth of technological utopianism which contends that immersive ...
Polis has hosted a symposium (yes, we’re that kind of think-tank) on the state of humanitarian commu...
Digital innovation and data practices are increasingly central to the humanitarian response to recen...
Liking the Instagram post of a humanitarian celebrity, e-shopping from a charity shop or signing an ...
It is difficult to overstate the importance of trust in a world where global networks facilitate the...
The social media boom has brought about a new age of communications and connectedness in our world. ...
Within humanitarian discourse, there is a prevailing narrative: the powerful liberal heroes are savi...
The role that technologies have historically played in producing and reproducing global inequalities...
Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects ...
The impacts and influences of globalised digitalisation has increased its presence within the politi...
The 2013 World Disasters Report uses the term 'humanitarian technology' to refer to the empowering n...
Debates are ongoing on the limits of - and possibilities for - sovereignty in the digital era. While...
‘If something happens somewhere in the world – regardless of whether it is banal or profound – someo...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015Over the last decade, new technologies and data source...
While the question of how images matters in world politics is a pertinent issue in contemporary Inte...
This article aims to deconstruct the myth of technological utopianism which contends that immersive ...
Polis has hosted a symposium (yes, we’re that kind of think-tank) on the state of humanitarian commu...
Digital innovation and data practices are increasingly central to the humanitarian response to recen...
Liking the Instagram post of a humanitarian celebrity, e-shopping from a charity shop or signing an ...
It is difficult to overstate the importance of trust in a world where global networks facilitate the...
The social media boom has brought about a new age of communications and connectedness in our world. ...
Within humanitarian discourse, there is a prevailing narrative: the powerful liberal heroes are savi...
The role that technologies have historically played in producing and reproducing global inequalities...