| Description |
ix, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Media and environments. Constructing the environment ; Before television ; Discovering the environment -- Conflict and risk. Debating the environment ; Public arenas ; Mediated conflict ; Risk society -- News and journalists. Constructing news ; Making news ; Changing news -- Sources and voices. News sources ; Political and industry communications ; Scientific sources, lay voices -- Movement and protest. Environment movement ; Protest and demonstrations ; Protest and the internet -- Symbols and celebrities. Symbols and politics ; Symbolizing forest destruction ; Celebrity protesters -- Environment and engagement. Engaging citizens ; Engaging media |
| Summary |
"Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debate. This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between media roles and environmental futures, and of the ways in which news works to influence environmental decision-making across boundaries and over time. Drawing on a range of international examples, Dr Libby Lester invites readers to develop a nuanced understanding of changing media practices and dynamics by connecting local, national and global environmental issues, journalistic practices and news sources, public relations and protests, and the symbolic and strategic circulation of meanings in the public sphere. Media and Environment argues that news maintains a central role in environmental politics. As such, it asks about our understandings of place and community, of local responsibility and global citizenship, and how communication as a society on these crucial issues affects our lives, now and into the future."--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index |
| Subject |
Mass media and the environment
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Environmental policy -- Press coverage
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Environmental sciences -- Press coverage
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Environmental health -- Press coverage
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Environmental protection -- Press coverage
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Environmentalism in mass media
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| LC no. |
2011283833 |
| ISBN |
9780745644011 |
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0745644015 |
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9780745644028 |
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0745644023 |
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