Extreme weather and global media Introduction: extreme weather and global media Julia Leyda and Diane Negra Televising superstorm Sandy: new configurations of poverty and neoliberalism in extreme weather coverage Jon Kraszewski The eye of the storm: CCTV surveillance and media representations of extreme weather Justin Carville Picturing high water: the 2013 floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado Susanne Leikam Blowtorch Britain : labor heat and neo Victorian values in contemporary UK media Paula Gilligan Post political crisis management: representations of extreme weather in Swedish media Annika Olsson Disaster data data activism: grassroots responses to representating superstorm Sandy Max Liboiron Mangoes and monsoons: South Asian media coverage of environmental spectacles Sujata Moorti Rain with a chance of radiation: forecasting local and global risk after Fukushima Laura Beltz Imaoka