Glenda Cooper
PhD title: From our own correspondents? How user-generated content is altering the power dynamics in reporting humanitarian crises
School/Centre: The City Law School and Centre for Law Justice and Journalism
Email: glenda.cooper.1@city.ac.uk
Glenda's thesis title is 'From our own correspondents? How user-generated content is altering the power dynamics in reporting humanitarian crises'. The proposal aims to discover whether the increasing availability of words and images produced by ordinary people are changing anything about the way news organisations report humanitarian crises, or the way that aid agencies respond to them. Little is known about how this content is used and who is actually generating it. Are we witnessing a genuine change in the balance of power in reporting - or have these corporations 'cloned' this news form in order to maintain their own privileged status? Her research supervisors are Prof Howard Tumber and Prof Lorna Woods.
Glenda has undertaken an MA in English Language and Literature St Hilda's College,Oxford (1990-3), postgraduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism, City University (1994) as well as an MA in Creative Writing City University, London (2006).
Before returning to study, Glenda was a journalist working at national level for over a decade including the BBC and Channel 4 News, the Independent, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. She was the 14th Guardian Research Fellow, Nuffield College Oxford (2006-7); visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2007-8; and associate member of Nuffield College Oxford 2008-11.
Her research interests focus upon User-generated content, reporting of NGOs and humanitarian issues, conflict reporting.
Publications
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'Privacy, Probity and Public Interest', RISJ pamphlet co-authored with Stephen Whittle (2009)
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'Anyone Here Survived a Wave, Speak English and Got a Mobile? Aid agencies, the media and reporting disasters since the tsunami' 14th Guardian lecture published by Nuffield College, Oxford (2007).
Conference contributions
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Guest lecturer, Conflict Research Lectures and Debates series, Ghent University, April 2010
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Panel Contributor, "Media and Crisis: How do words and images portray 'justness' in world news coverage." School of Oriental and African Studies, London Feb 2009
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Panel Contributor "The Mediatisation of Humanitarian Crises", London School of Economics
November 2008
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Panel Contributor, "User-generated content and the news" LSE. (September 2008)
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Keynote speaker at the 23rd Biannual ALNAP conference in Madrid Media and Humanitarianism June 2008
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Delivered 14th Guardian Lecture, Nuffield College, Oxford. November 2007
