Environmental conflict and the media /

Other Authors: Lester, Libby, Hutchins, Brett
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang Pub., c2013.
Series:Global crises and the media 13
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: tree-sitting in the network society / Brett Hutchins and Libby Lester - - Environmental conflict in a global, media age: beyond dualisms / Simon Cottle - - "Old" and "new" technologies. Campaigning journalism: the early press, environmental advocacy and national parks / Michael Meadows and Robert Thomson - - Affecting environments: mobilizing emotion and Twitter in the UK Save Our Forests campaign / Alex Lockwood - - Clear cuts on clearcutting: YouTube, activist videos and narrative strategies / Catherine Collins - - Photography, technology and ecological criticism: beyond the sublime image of disaster / Daniel Palmer - - Activism and campaigns. Not so soft? travel journalism, environmental protest, power and the Internet / Lyn McGaurr - - Contesting extractivism: media and environmental citizenship in Latin America / Silvio Waisbord - - Online media, flak and local environmental politics / Kitty van Vuuren - - Celebrity, environmentalism and conservation / Dan Brockington - - Dodgy science or global necessity? Local media reporting of marine parks / Michelle Voyer, TanjaDreher, William Gladstone and Heather Goodall - - Comunicating crises. Greening wildlife documentary / Morgan Richards - - Whither the "moral imperative": the focus and framing of political rhetoric in the climate change debate in Australia / Myra Gurney - - As Fukushima unfolds: media meltdown and public empowerment / Kumi Kato - - Public communication, environmental crises and nuclear disasters: a comparative approach / Clio Kenterelidou - - Contested claims. Climate change, media convergence and public uncertainty / Robert Cox - - "That sinking feeling": climate change, journalism and small island states / Chris Nash and Wendy Bacon - - "Skeptics" and "believers": the anti-elite rhetoric of climate change skepticism in the media / Alanna Myers - - Media, civil society and the rise of a green public sphere in China / Guobin Yang and Craig Calhoun - - Afterword / Senator Christine Milne, Leader of the Australian Greens.