Lilie Chouliaraki

Lilie Chouliaraki is a professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Chouliaraki’s main area of research is the mediation of human vulnerability and suffering. She empirically explores how the media affects our moral and political relationships with distant others in the sense that it affects how we see the vulnerability of other people and how we are asked to feel, think and act toward them.

Her approach is interdisciplinary and draws on Social and Cultural Theory, Moral Philosophy and Sociology, Visual Communication and Social Semiotics, as well as Discourse Theory and Analysis.

Lilie Chouliaraki's research primarily centers on the mediation of human vulnerability, with a two-decade focus on four key areas where it manifests as a communication issue: disaster news, humanitarianism, migration, and war.

Chouliaraki's research also focuses on the concept of victimhood and its role in the cultural politics of Western public spheres. She examines the historical and contemporary conditions under which vulnerability, a social state of openness to violence, transforms into victimhood, a form of communication that bestows the moral value of the vulnerable upon those who claim it.

In her 2024 book, "[https://cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9780231550239 Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood]" (Columbia University Press), Chouliaraki examines the history and politics of victimhood within the context of emotional capitalism, social media platforms, and far-right populism. The book's main themes are discussed in a podcast with Chouliaraki on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm85daHmlJ8 Borderless Voices with Dr. Ayesha Jehangir] and in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0byNDYyH9Ro video presentation] available on the LSE's [https://www.youtube.com/@theLondonSchoolofEconomics Youtube channel.]. Provided by Wikipedia