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Lilie Chouliaraki

Lilie Chouliaraki is Chair in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Chouliaraki’s main area of research is the mediation of human vulnerability and suffering. Her publications have pioneered an interdisciplinary research field in Media and Communications Ethics, focusing on three areas of research:

* ''Media Representations and Vulnerable Populations in the Global South'': How media portrayals influence Western moral and political relationships with vulnerable populations in the Global South, shaping perceptions and responses to their circumstances. * ''Pain, Power, and Global Hierarchies'': How expressions of pain intersect with global power structures, affecting the way Western audience perceives and responds to the suffering of distant others. * ''Weaponization of Human Suffering'': How human suffering is manipulated and exploited by political actors for their own agendas.

Her research examines case studies on disaster news, humanitarian and human rights communication, migration as well as war and conflict journalism, approaching these in a historical perspective and across mass media and digital platforms. This research has been published in her trilogy of books on human vulnerability as a problem of communication: ''The Spectatorship of Suffering'' (2006/2011), ''The Ironic Spectator. Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism'' (2013) and ''The Digital Border. Migration, Technology, Power'' (2022, with Myria Georgiou).

Chouliaraki's research has expanded to include the history and politics of victimhood, particularly within the context of emotional capitalism, social media platforms, and far-right populism. This research cycle culminated in a trilogy of books, the first of which, the first book of which appeared as ''Wronged. The Weaponization of Victimhood'' with Columbia University Press in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia