<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Gerne möchte ich als Nachtrag zur Konferenz zu Entwicklungskommunikation an der Uni Leipzig letzte Woche und meine Neuaufnahme in die Liste nutzen um meine Arbeit und unsere Lehrangebote im Bereich 'Communication for Development' kurz vorzustellen.</div>
<div>Die Uni Malmö bietet seit mehr als 15 Jahren ein online Master-Programm zu Entwicklungskommunikation an, das ich zur Zeit leite. Meine akademischen Interessensgebiete liegen in der digitalen Organisationskommunikation und generell bei der Thematik 'Entwicklung' zeitgemäss, cross-medial und Evidenz-basiert zu kommunizieren.</div>
<div>Meinen aktuellen Blogbeitrag habe ich zur Info eingefuegt-(fast) jeden Freitag gibt es auch eine Uebersicht mit kuratierten Leseempfehlungen rund um Entwicklung & Kommunikation!</div>
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<div><strong>Combat charities and the mediatization of extreme humanitarian volunteering</strong></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I recently learned about ‘combat charities’ thanks to a short CNN video that apparently shows the <i>Free Burma Army</i> fighting in Mosul and an article in the <i>Washington Post</i> on the family behind one of its leaders who had moved to Mosul<br/>
(‘It was just an average day for the Eubanks, who describe their work as a calling from God’). </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">As a kick-starter for more discussions, my post will focus on three aspects: the (American) hero narrative, the responsibility of media organizations to engage with content from such combat organizations and implications for volunteering/voluntourism and the humanitarian project: </span></span></div>
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<div><a href="http://aidnography.blogspot.se/2017/06/combat-charities-mediatization-extreme-humanitarian-volunteering.html" target="_blank">http://aidnography.blogspot.se/2017/06/combat-charities-mediatization-extreme-humanitarian-volunteering.html</a></div>
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<div>Mit besten Gruessen,</div>
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<div>Tobias Denskus</div>
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tobias Denskus, PhD.</div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senior Lecturer & MA Program Coordinator Communication for Development</div>
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<div>Konst, kultur och kommunikation, K3 | School of Arts and Communication, K3</div>
<div>Malmö högskola | Malmö University</div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">ComDev portal:<span> </span><a href="http://www.mah.se/comdev">http://www.mah.se/comdev</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal blog:<span> </span><a href="http://www.aidnography.de/">http://www.aidnography.de</a></div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Latest research:<span> </span><a href="http://mah.academia.edu/TobiasDenskus">http://mah.academia.edu/TobiasDenskus</a></div>
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