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Unlocking the gate? How NGOs mediate the voices of the marginalised in a social media context

Cooper, G. (2015). Unlocking the gate? How NGOs mediate the voices of the marginalised in a social media context. In: Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Savigny, H. & Alexander, J. (Eds.), Media, Margins and Civic Agency. (pp. 29-42). London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137512642_3

Abstract

At the Live 8 concert in 2005, pop star Madonna provided one of the seminal images of the day: dressed all in white, she held hands with a young Ethiopian woman called Birhan Woldu (Carr-Brown et al., 2005). As a young child, Woldu had been the icon of the 1984–85 famine, with her emaciated form appeared in the BBC’s news coverage of Ethiopia — and most famously at Live Aid 1985 to the soundtrack of The Cars’ ‘Drive’.

Publication Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Cooper, G. (2015). Unlocking the gate? How NGOs mediate the voices of the marginalised in a social media context. In: E. Thorsen, D. Jackson, H. Savigny & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins and Civic Agency. (pp. 29-42). London: Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137512635.
Departments: School of Communication & Creativity > Journalism
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