[Commlist] New book: Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age

New book 'Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in A Social Media Age'

https://www.routledge.com/Reporting-Humanitarian-Disasters-in-a-Social-Media-Age/Cooper/p/book/9781138483576

Hardback/252pages/ISBN 9781138483576/Routledge/ £115 -also available in 
eBook from £20.50

About the book:

 From the tsunami to Hurricane Sandy, the Nepal earthquake to the 
2015 refugee crisis —defining images and accounts of humanitarian crises 
are now often created, not by journalists but by ordinary citizens using 
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat. But how has the use 
of this content—and the way it is spread by social media—altered the 
rituals around disaster reporting, the close, if not symbiotic, 
relationship between journalists and aid agencies, and the kind of 
crises that are covered? Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews 
with journalists and aid agency press officers, participant observations 
at the Guardian, BBC and Save the Children UK, as well as the ordinary 
people who created the words and pictures that framed recent disasters, 
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 ever　realising how far it would go.

Review:

*'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/

About the author: Dr Glenda Cooper is a lecturer in journalism at City, 
University of London. Her research centres on humanitarian disasters, 
the relationship between aid agencies and journalists and the ethical 
issues surrounding use of user-generated content. She is the co-editor 
of /Humanitarianism, Communications and Change /(Peter Lang, 2015), and 
editor of /The Future of Humanitarian Reporting/(City University, 2014). 
Before that, she was the Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, 
Oxford and a staff journalist at the BBC, /Independent, Daily Mail, 
Washington Post, Sunday Times /and the /Daily Telegraph./

	
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