During my research for my blog content concerning public health in the digital era, I came across with Angus Deaton’s book[1]. The Great Escape: Health, wealth and the origin of inequality is originally the title of a film about people fleeing from a war camp during World War II. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and economist uses this in the context of how humanity “escapes” from, among other things, poverty and premature death, and how it creates prosperity for itself.
Month: November 2020
The Volunteering Journey
Over the last two months, I have had the opportunity to embark myself on a fascinating journey and, taking advantage of my groupmates’ wise guide and advice, to discover the challenges and penuries that novice volunteers will encounter in their own journey. In this final blog, I will re-visit my previous contributions to our hands-on communication blog project, “A Better Volunteer”, and try to show my conclusions and reflections upon a topic of paramount importance for the humanitarian sector.
How does social media impact the representations of global poverty?
Introduction
New Media and ICT have become part of most realms of human life and society in general. Information sharing and communication is easier than ever before, if you by easier mean less cumbersome and time consuming. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it has become easier to understand one another, or that it brings us closer together as humans. Social media is one example of (relatively) recent technology that simplifies both information sharing and communication, and something that has become an integral part of everyday life for many people around the world.
Voluntourism and the digital divide – Future thoughts and opportunities
I have written several blogposts the last couple of weeks with the main subjects being white saviorism (voluntourism and white privilege) and education (digital divide and ICT’s in education). For the purpose of this blogpost I would like to elaborate on the individual blogposts that I have written and provide a deeper understanding of these matters. I would also like to discuss the experience of writing and maintaining a blog throughout these last few weeks.
An overview of my previous blogposts and reflections on the blogging experience
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During these last six weeks I have, together with four my fellow students, been posting weekly blogposts. It has been a part of an assignment in our studies in communication for development. It was a very different assignment from what I am used to, and it has been both challenging and a learning experience. With this blog we wanted to create a platform for a younger audience with an interest in, but none or very little experience of, the aid industry and volunteering. Our hope was to be a positive influence for young people who are thinking of embarking on the volunteering path.