Environmental conflict and the media /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lester, Libby (Editor), Hutchins, Brett, 1973- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2013.
Series:Global crises and the media ; v. 13.
Subjects:
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.