Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China [electronic resource] /
Tong, J.author.
This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Modernisation, Environmental Problems and Chinese Society; 2 Twenty Years of Environmental Investigative Reporting: Agendas, Social Interests and Voices; 3 The Discourse of Risk: Environmental Problems and Environmentalism in Chinese Press Investigative Reports; 4 Environmental Investigative Journalists and Their Work; 5 Offline Investigative Journalism and Online Environmental Crusades
6 Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Investigative Journalism between Modernisation and Environmental ProblemsNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.
Environmental sociology.
Environmental sciences-Philosophy.
Public health.
Earth sciences.
Economic development.
Environmental economics.
Environmental Sociology.
Environmental Philosophy.
Public Health.
Earth Sciences, general.
Development Studies.
Environmental Economics.