Environment, Media and Communication

The book draws on the advances in the field of environmental communication research to show the increasing complexity of environmental communication and to stress the persistent urgency of analysing and understanding how communication about the environment is being influenced and manipulated.

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Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Communication; Founder and immediate-past Chair of the IAMCR Group on Environment, Science and Risk Communication; Founding member, and Executive Board Member and Secretary 2011-2015, of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA).

Klappentext

Media and communication processes are central to how we come to know about and make sense of our environment and to the ways in which environmental concerns are generated, elaborated, manipulated and contested. The second edition of Environment, Media and Communication builds on the first edition's framework for analysing and understanding media and communication roles in the politics of the environment. It draws on the significant and continuing growth and advances in the field of environmental communication research to show the increasing diversification and complexity of environmental communication. The book highlights the persistent urgency of analysing and understanding how communication about the environment is being influenced and manipulated, with implications for how and indeed whether environmental challenges are being addressed and dealt with.

Since the first edition, changes in media organisations, news media and environmental journalism have continued apace, but - perhaps more significantly - the media technologies and the media and communications landscape have evolved profoundly with the continued rise of digital and social media. Such changes have gone hand in hand with, and often facilitated, enabled and enhanced shifting balances of power in the politics of the environment. There is thus a greater need than ever to analyse and understand the roles of mediated public communication about the environment, and to ask critical questions about who/what benefits and who/what is adversely affected by such processes.

This book will be of interest to students in media/communication studies, geography, environmental studies, political science and sociology as well as to environmental professionals and activists.

Inhalt

*List of boxes

List of exercises

Series editor's preface

Preface to the Second Edition

• Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Communication and the construction of environmental issues

Chapter 3: Making claims and managing news about the environment

Chapter 4: The environment as news: news values, news media and journalistic practices

Chapter 5: Popular culture, nature and environmental issues

Chapter 6: Selling 'nature/the natural': Advertising, nature, national identity, nostalgia and the environmental image

Chapter 7: Media, publics, politics and environmental issues

Chapter 8: Environment, media and communication -looking back, looking forward *

Glossary

References

Index *