Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

ISBN-13: 9781138688575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 572 str.

Robin Andersen; Purnaka L. De Silva

Opis

According to the United Nations, there are currently more crises around the globe than at any other time in human history, and the number of people affected by complex emergencies and humanitarian crises has more than doubled in the last decade. We live in a moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, and representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. This volume 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 and 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.

O autorze

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 the United Nations system.