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  title info:
    title: Media reform and the climate emergency
    sub title: rethinking communication in the struggle for a sustainable future
  name:
    name part: Park, David J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Award-winning author David J. Park argues that the battle against global warming is also a fight for media reform. With his new book Media Reform and the Climate Emergency: Rethinking Communication in the Struggle for a Sustainable World, he critically examines how advertising, the digital infrastructure and journalism advance the climate emergency and lays out a path of reform to help create a more sustainable world. The production and consumption of goods and services within consumer societies lead to unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, and Park finds that much of mass communication is either dependent upon or closely tied to the success of this social organization. As a result, he suggests successful environmental movements creatively dismantle or reform institutional infrastructures that extend the planetary global warming crisis and the unsustainable consumption of nature. Communication policies and industries are part of these infrastructures. Advertising evolved to propel a new consumer society that would encourage the over-consumption of goods and services with harmful and unsustainable production processes. Our digital infrastructure is largely premised upon the surveillance of online consumer habits and preferences, with the goal to create individualized messages to more effectively persuade people to increase their consumption habits. Much of commercial journalism resists the drastic and immediate regulatory changes necessary to address the worst aspects of this crisis. This is because so many of the needed changes challenge the media's source of income, their libertarian philosophy and the general status quo, which is preferred by elites. Bound to foster conversations among scholars, activists, politicians and those who work in the communication industries, this book rethinks mass communication and highlights how immediate reform is needed in the struggle for a sustainable planet.
  table of contents: The last generation to stop the disaster -- US political will to address the climate crisis -- Advertising, consumerism, industrialism, and ideology -- Advertising and its interdependence with the origins of the climate crisis -- Conceptualizing a mitigative model of advertising -- Digital era advertising, surveillance, exploitation, and inequities -- Challenges to sustainability in the digital era -- Challenges to US climate change journalism -- Misinformation, blogs, and public opinion -- The battle against global warming is also a fight for media reform.
  note: David J. Park.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes in mass media
  subject:
    topic: Mass media and the environment
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Climate change mitigation
    geographic: United States
  classification: P96.C58 P37 2021
  classification: 320.58
  identifier: 9780472132713
  identifier: 0472132717
  identifier: 9780472129331
  identifier: 2021009769
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210411
    record change date: 20220105170344.0
    record identifier: in00004374645