The Appearance of Accountability: Communication Technologies and Power Asymmetries in Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Recovery

• Main Authors: Madianou, Mirca, Ong, Jonathan Corpus, Longboan, Liezel, Cornelio, Jayeel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Subjects: Accountability; Audit; Communication for Development; Participatory Communication; ICT4D; Disasters; Humanitarianism; Mobile Phones; Texting; SMS; Ethnography; Communication; Development Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/21; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcom.12258
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

New communication technologies are celebrated for their potential to improve the accountability of humanitarian agencies. The response to Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 represents the most systematic implementation of “accountability to affected people” initiatives. Drawing on a year‐long ethnography of the...