Researching (with) Social Media Reading Group
2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, Sociology
Dr Mirca Madianou, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths
Dr Jonathan Ong, Media and Communication, Leicester
Our talk will give an overview of the Humanitarian Technologies Project, an ESRC-funded study of the uses of social and mobile media in humanitarian relief and disaster recovery. Much enthusiasm surrounds the use of digital media for humanitarian relief, as encapsulated by the term ‘humanitarian technologies’, used in recent reports to refer to the empowering nature of mobile phones and social media in disaster recovery. Our talk will critically engage this optimistic account of digital technologies as we report from our 12 month ethnography of the recovery from Typhoon Haiyan which hit the Philippines in November 2013.
For more information about the project, please visit our website: www.humanitariantechnologies.net
To register for the talk and for further information, please visit: www.smhr.sociology.cam.ac.uk/Reading%20Group/RwSMMadianouOng
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