Media and environment
Subtitle: conflict, politics and the news
By: Libby Lester
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780745644011; 9780745644028
Subjects: Environmental sciences; Environmental protection; Environmental policy; Press coverage; Environmentalism in mass media; Environmental health; Mass media and the environment
Other titles: Media & environment; Conflict, politics and the news
Description: "Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debate. This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between media roles and environmental futures, and of the ways in which news works to influence environmental decision-making across boundaries and over time. Drawing on a range of international examples, Dr Libby Lester invites readers to develop a nuanced understanding of changing media practices and dynamics by connecting local, national and global environmental issues, journalistic practices and news sources, public relations and protests, and the symbolic and strategic circulation of meanings in the public sphere. Media and Environment argues that news maintains a central role in environmental politics. As such, it asks about our understandings of place and community, of local responsibility and global citizenship, and how communication as a society on these crucial issues affects our lives, now and into the future."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Media and environments. Constructing the environment ; Before television ; Discovering the environment; title: Conflict and risk. Debating the environment ; Public arenas ; Mediated conflict ; Risk society; title: News and journalists. Constructing news ; Making news ; Changing news; title: Sources and voices. News sources ; Political and industry communications ; Scientific sources, lay voices; title: Movement and protest. Environment movement ; Protest and demonstrations ; Protest and the internet; title: Symbols and celebrities. Symbols and politics ; Symbolizing forest destruction ; Celebrity protesters; title: Environment and engagement. Engaging citizens ; Engaging media.