Mediated Humanitarian Knowledge Audiences’ Reactions and Moral Actions ( KARMA)

Mediated Humanitarian KnowledgeAudiences’ Reactions

and Moral Actions (KARMA)

Caring in Crisis? Colloquium – 7 June 2014

Introduction ByDr. Rodolfo Leyva

Leverhulme Trust: Reference Grant Number F/07 112/Y. .

http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/

Background

The contemporary global public sphere is full of information about the suffering of distant others.

Information about humanitarian disasters, wars and human rights abuses is often transmitted in real-time.

Leverhulme Trust: Reference Grant # F/07 112/Y.

However, we know very little about what this knowledge does to us, as 'symbolic bystanders', and what we do with that knowledge.

To help fill this gap, this three-year Leverhulme Trust funded study was launched in 2010 by Principal Investigator Dr Bruna Seu (Birkbeck), Co-Investigator Dr Shani Orgad (LSE) and Consultant Prof. Stan Cohen (LSE).

Mediated Humanitarian Knowledge Audiences’

Reactions and Moral Actions(KARMA)


Project Goals

The study sought to (in the UK context): Investigate how people’s ideologies, emotions

and biographical experiences shape their understandings and reactions to humanitarian and international development issues and communications.

Explore how NGOs plan and think about their communications.


How do people get engaged

and stay engaged?

How can NGOs foster trust

and understanding

?

What kinds of relationship do

people have and want with distant others

in need?

How do people think about

creating change in the

world?

Why does it matter?


Phases of Research

20 demographicall

y representative focus groups

with 182 participants.

17 in-depth Interviews with

NGO Professionals

22 In-depth one-on-one interviews

with 12 members of

the UK public

3 Action Research/Knowledge

Exchange EventsAutumn 2012 Summer 2013Summer2014



http://www.unicef.org.uk/

Participants from the UK Public

10 male and 10 female groups of approximately 9 participants each.

5 Age groupings 18-25; 26-35; 36-45; 46-55; 65+.

Mixed in terms of ethnicity, socio-economic status., occupation, sexuality and marital status.

Findings Reports

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychosocial/our-research/research-projects/mediated-humanitarian-knowledge


Today’s Speakers

Main researchers: Dr Bruna Seu (Birkbeck) and Dr Shani Orgad (LSE)

Panel speakers: Brendan Gormley (CDAC Network), Professor Paul Hoggett (UWE),Professor Mark Levine (University of Exeter), Professor Sonia Livingstone (LSE),Professor Kate Nash (Goldsmiths College), Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University) and Glen Tarman (Action Against Hunger)

Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University)


Programme:

10.15: Bruna Seu: Presentation on data from the UK public

11.15: Tea break (Room 152)

11.30: Panel 1: Paul Hoggett, Sonia Livingstone, Glen Tarman, and questions from the floor 12.30: Lunch (Room 152)

13.30: Shani Orgad: Presentation on data from NGO practitioners

14.30: Panel 2: Brendan Gormley, Mark Levine, Kate Nash, and questions from the floor

15.30: Tea break (Room 152)

15.45: Peter Singer: Keynote

16.30: Plenary

17.00: Close


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