November winds in Sweden brought me two good news, climate wise. First, I read the news that Jeff Bezos had finally announced the first beneficiaries of his climate fund. Second, I came across a beautiful mural of climate activist Vanessa Nakate, in the streets of Malmö. Since both individuals were …
In the past months, I wrote four blogposts related to new media and development. My blogposts encompassed topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, COVID-19 and censorship, the dehumanizing use of marginalized people on development organizations’ social media and the role of the digital ‘world’ in relation to displaced people …
For development organizations, it is difficult to attract an (online) audience that is involved and lasts. Visual media can help attracting such an audience. Visualizing a cause is a great way to reach more engagement. Images receive more attention from viewers, are better understood and give credibility to a message. …
