Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don't match what the public wants, thinks and feels about distant suffering

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Springer Verlag GmbH
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Irene Bruna Seu is Reader in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Her last book Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality (2013) reports on her research on public responses to knowledge about human rights violations in the UK and Spain. Shani Orgad is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her previous books include Storytelling Online: Talking Breast Cancer on the Internet (2005) and Media Representation and the Global Imagination (2012).