ABSTRACT
Today's humanitarianism and media are inextricably linked in a co-dependent, mutually beneficial relationship. The media is critical to the humanitarian response of global disasters as we respond to them through media images and discourses that can invest them with emotional and political charge, needed for mobilization of solidarities (Benthall 1993: 8; Pantti et al. 2012; Tester 2001). New computer-mediated technologies are now transforming the communicative conditions of humanitarian-media field, and at the same time reconfiguring communications power and emotional politics in times of disaster.
