Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age

ISBN-13: 9781138483576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 252 str.

Glenda Cooper

Opis

Defining images and accounts of humanitarian crises are now often created not by journalists but by ordinary citizens using social media. This book reveals how humanitarian disasters are covered in the 21st century – and the potential consequences for those who posted a tweet, a video or photo without realising how far it would go.

Recenzje

'What is often been theorized upon and dealt with in highly hypothetical ways, has finally met its empirical match. Drawing on an impressive amount of interviews with journalists, aid agency press officers but especially with ordinary citizens posting on social media, Dr. Glenda Cooper offers an insightful and detailed inquiry into the role of UGC and forms of citizen journalism in reporting on international humanitarian disasters. The book asks compelling and topical questions about privacy, ethics and journalistic practices in this new digital age of social media.' -Stijn Joye, Ghent University, Belgium