Michael Dokyum Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6715669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Dokyum Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Dokyum |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5263-1571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Quantification to Donor Appreciation: Post-Humanitarianism and Discursive Strategies of NGO Legitimacy on Social Media
Approaching legitimacy discourses through the lens of post-humanitarianism, this study examines discursive legitimacy strategies in international NGOs’ social media communication. The findings identify seven strategies through which NGOs negotiate legitimacy via an ambivalent assemblage of palatable pity, institutional branding, and compensatory discourses. While these strategies do not reflect a wholesale adoption of post-humanitarianism, they r…
Mediating development online: The politics of visibility and representation in NGO social media space
This study examines how leading international development NGOs construct their public face of development through their social media representations of aid recipients and providers. Drawing on a critically oriented quantitative content analysis of 1037 Facebook and Twitter (now “X”) posts collected from four US-based global development NGOs, the study analyzes recurring visual and verbal patterns of representation. The findings reveal a persisten…
Mapping participation in ICT4D: A meta-analytic review of development communication research
We conducted a meta-analytic study of recent (2009 to 2020) information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research in the field of development communication. Our aim was to explore the conceptualization of participation in the context of ICTs and globalization in contemporary scholarly discourse. We found that most studies published during this period evinced a technological deterministic discourse regarding the process of so…
Communicating Development Through US News: Toward Decolonizing “News About Development”
Drawing on a content analysis of 263 news articles on US development assistance from 2011 to 2020 across three US media outlets, the study investigates the media's performance in covering and representing US development assistance to the public. The analysis reveals that the media focus their coverage of US development assistance based on geopolitical interests and high-profile stories of aid, and fail to critically and comprehensively follow up …
Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face o…
News values and human values in mediated terrorism: Photographic representations of the 2015 Beirut and Paris attacks by global news agencies
This study explores the photographic representations of two terrorist incidents, the 2015 Paris attacks and the Beirut bombings, produced by the leading global news agencies. The study conducts a content analysis of the photographs produced by AP, Reuters and AFP to identify the recurring patterns of the images under the discourse of ‘othering’ and ‘grievability’. It is observed that the agencies represented the two incidents differently as they …
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News values and human values in mediated terrorism: Photographic representations of the 2015 Beirut and Paris attacks by global news agencies
This study explores the photographic representations of two terrorist incidents, the 2015 Paris attacks and the Beirut bombings, produced by the leading global news agencies. The study conducts a content analysis of the photographs produced by AP, Reuters and AFP to identify the recurring patterns of the images under the discourse of ‘othering’ and ‘grievability’. It is observed that the agencies represented the two incidents differently as they …
Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face o…
Mapping participation in ICT4D: A meta-analytic review of development communication research
We conducted a meta-analytic study of recent (2009 to 2020) information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research in the field of development communication. Our aim was to explore the conceptualization of participation in the context of ICTs and globalization in contemporary scholarly discourse. We found that most studies published during this period evinced a technological deterministic discourse regarding the process of so…
Communicating Development Through US News: Toward Decolonizing “News About Development”
Drawing on a content analysis of 263 news articles on US development assistance from 2011 to 2020 across three US media outlets, the study investigates the media's performance in covering and representing US development assistance to the public. The analysis reveals that the media focus their coverage of US development assistance based on geopolitical interests and high-profile stories of aid, and fail to critically and comprehensively follow up …
From Quantification to Donor Appreciation: Post-Humanitarianism and Discursive Strategies of NGO Legitimacy on Social Media
Approaching legitimacy discourses through the lens of post-humanitarianism, this study examines discursive legitimacy strategies in international NGOs’ social media communication. The findings identify seven strategies through which NGOs negotiate legitimacy via an ambivalent assemblage of palatable pity, institutional branding, and compensatory discourses. While these strategies do not reflect a wholesale adoption of post-humanitarianism, they r…
Mediating development online: The politics of visibility and representation in NGO social media space
This study examines how leading international development NGOs construct their public face of development through their social media representations of aid recipients and providers. Drawing on a critically oriented quantitative content analysis of 1037 Facebook and Twitter (now “X”) posts collected from four US-based global development NGOs, the study analyzes recurring visual and verbal patterns of representation. The findings reveal a persisten…
Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Content analysis (2 works)