Emotions, Expert Systems and Social Networks in Humanitarians
This article focuses on the evolution of humanitarian and media actors’ communication on the food crises that hit Somalia (2017) and Yemen (2018). The sources for this analysis are drawn from bibliographic materials, readings of media and ngo publications on the Net, and interviews with humanitarian professionals. It shows how emotional narrative constructions are revived through the mobilization of expert knowledge and the use of social networks and shape narratives of new imagined famines.