Environment, media and communication

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Title:

Author:

Hansen, Anders, 1957- author.

ISBN:

9781138650459

9781138650473

Personal Author:

Hansen, Anders, 1957- author.

Edition:

Second edition.

Physical Description:

xviii, 244 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Routledge Introductions to Environment Series: Environment and society texts

Routledge introductions to environment series.

General Note:

Previous editon: 2010.

Contents:

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.

Abstract:

"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)"-- Provided by publisher.

"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 and to stress 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Mass media and the environment.

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Summary

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.