Keywords voted on by expert panel

To identify suitable keywords relating to the interpretative frame of the 'emergency imaginary', the lead author conducted a content analysis of Craig Calhoun's work on the subject. She drew up a list of most frequently mentioned words relating to three key aspects of this interpretative frame: the definition of problem (listed in Table 1), the imperative to act swiftly (listed in Table 2) and the recommended treatment to address the problem (listed in Table 3). Next, we approached five experts, who have published extensively on humanitarian communication (Lilie Chouliaraki, Glenda Cooper, Simon Cottle, Jonathan Corpus Ong, and Matthew Powers). We asked these scholars to select and rank the words from each list that they thought were most relevant for each dimension of the emergency imaginary .This took place in 2022. The keywords chosen by the panel in relation to each dimension were: ? The problem: "crisis", "disaster" ? The imperative to act swiftly: "now", "sudden", "urgent". ? Recommended treatment: "help", "rescue", "save". These keywords were then used to engage in a la carte (ALC) word embedding. Specifically, we generated country-level estimates of closeness between the word "humanitarian*" and the different dimensions of the emergency imaginary. For each dimension, we computed how "close" (measured in cosine similarity) the keywords were to the word "humanitarian*."