Lugo-Ocando, J orcid.org/0000-0002-9533-2088 and Andrade, G (2019) Selling the lottery to earn salvation: journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication. In: Lawrence, M and Tavernor, R, (eds.) Global humanitarianism and media culture. Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches . Manchester University Press , Manchester, UK , pp. 187-204. ISBN 9781526117298
Abstract
The news media creates regimes of pity in order to mobilise the public towards humanitarian causes. Such regimes of pity tend to obviate the power relations between those who suffer and the spectators. This chapter proposes a type of news coverage that creates a specific type of political solidarity and which does not reproduce the power relations that have been prevalent until now in most news narratives and humanitarian campaigns. It argues that journalism practice must adopt a view of ‘shared risk’ in which people embrace equally concerns about a common future. The notion of societal risk tends to create the type of collective uncertainty that brings about political action in ways that pity regimes do not.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Manchester University Press 2019. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) |
Keywords: | Humanitarian Communication; Journalism; Risk Communication; Media; Poverty; Public Relations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC AH/P00606X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2018 13:17 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:22 |
Published Version: | http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Series Name: | Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches |
Identification Number: | 10.7765/9781526117304.00018 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:131824 |
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