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Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of my 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. [cid:image002.png@01D4922C.14201450] Dr Glenda Cooper Lecturer, Department of Journalism; Book Reviews Editor ‘Journalism’ City, University of London Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB T: +44 (0)20 7040 0210 E: [log in to unmask] city.ac.uk/people/academics/glenda-cooper<http://www.city.ac.uk/> Office hours: AG40 2pm-4pm Thursdays Read my latest publication on how journalists and aid agencies work together in Journalism Practice: https://bit.ly/2NuUNC9 My book ‘Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age’ out soon: https://bit.ly/2Fw5v7Q See me in the Washington Post https://wapo.st/2NoqNmX -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------