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Introduction: Humanitarianism, Communications, and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Simon Cottle and Glenda Cooper Part One: Humanitarianism and Communications in a Changing World Chapter One: Humanitarianism, Human Insecurity, and Communications: What’s Changing in a Globalised World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Simon Cottle Chapter Two: Media Futures and Humanitarian Perspectives in an Age of Uncertainty and Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Randolph Kent Chapter Three: From Buerk to Ushahidi: Changes in TV Reporting of Humanitarian Crises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Richard Sambrook Chapter Four: Digital Humanitarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Paul Conneally vi | table of contents Part Two: Cash, Charity, and Communication Chapter Five: ‘Give us your ****ing money’: A Critical Appraisal of TV and the Cash Nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Glenda Cooper Chapter Six: NGOs, Media, and Public Understanding 25 Years On: An Interview with Paddy Coulter, Former Head of Media, Oxfam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Paddy Coulter with Glenda Cooper Chapter Seven: 3,000 Words that Explain How to Build a Powerful Fanbase, Make Your Message Go Viral, and Raise Millions for Your Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Liz Scarff Part Three: The Politics of Pity and the Poverty of Representation Chapter Eight: International NGOs, Global Poverty, and the Representations of Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Nandita Dogra Chapter Nine: Underline, Celebrate, Mitigate, Erase: Humanitarian NGOs’ Strategies of Communicating Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Shani Orgad Chapter Ten: Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Lilie Chouliaraki Part Four: NGO Communications: Impacts, Audiences, and Media Ecology Chapter Eleven: From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Suzanne Franks Chapter Twelve: Learning from the Public: UK Audiences’ Responses to Humanitarian Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Irene Bruna Seu...