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Valérie Gorin
Valérie Gorin (Ph.D.) is currently a lecturer at the Geneva Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) at the University of Geneva, and a SNF Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. She holds a Ph.D. in communication and media sciences from the University of Geneva. Her areas of research are related to the history of communication and humanitarian action and to the evolution and uses of photojournalism in modern times. She is currently doing research on the visual culture of humanitarianism, and on the link between citizen photojournalism, (eye)witnessing and advocacy strategies in humanitarian settings. She has published extensively about visual culture, crisis reporting and coverage of humanitarian crises in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Digital Journalism, the European Review of History, Twentieth Century Communism.