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At the Live 8 concert in 2005, pop star Madonna provided one of the seminal images of the day: dressed all in white, she held hands with a young Ethiopian woman called Birhan Woldu (Carr-Brown et al., 2005). As a young child, Woldu had been the icon of the 1984–85 famine, with her emaciated form appeared in the BBC’s news coverage of Ethiopia — and most famously at Live Aid 1985 to the soundtrack of The Cars’ ‘Drive’.
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Cooper, G. (2015). Unlocking the Gate? How NGOs Mediate the Voices of the Marginalised in a Social Media Context. In: Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Savigny, H., Alexander, J. (eds) Media, Margins and Civic Agency. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512642_3
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