Special Issue: Audiences in the face of distant suffering: New challenges for old ideals?

Editorial
1.) Audiences in the face of distant suffering: An introduction to the special issue. --Stijn Joye and Johannes von Engelhardt.

Articles
1.) Witnessing distant and proximal suffering within a zone of danger: Lay moralities of media audiences in the Philippines. --Jonathan Corpus Ong.
2.) Grassroots humanitarianism on YouTube: Ordinary fundraisers, unlikely donors, and global solidarity. --Mervi Pantti.
3.) Distant suffering online: The unfortunate irony of cyber-utopian narratives. --Martin Scott.
4.) Appealing children: UK audiences’ responses to the use of children in humanitarian communications. --Irene Bruna Seu.
5.) Citizen eyewitness images and audience engagement in crisis coverage. --Laura Ahva and Maria Hellman.
6.) Domesticating distant suffering: How can news media discursively invite the audience to care?. --Stijn Joye.
7.) Studying western audiences vis-a`-vis mediated distant suffering. A call to venture beyond media studies. --Johannes von Engelhardt.
8.) Afaterword: The dialectics of mediation in ‘distant suffering studies’. --Lilie Chouliaraki.