Environmental Risks and the Media.
Title:
Environmental Risks and the Media.
Author:
Adam, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780203164990
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Environmental Risks and the media -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk -- Part I. Mapping environmental risks -- 1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- 2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues -- 3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy -- 4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Part II. Denaturalising risk politics -- 5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' -- 6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics -- 7. The media timescapes of BSE news -- 8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project -- Part III. Bodies, risks and public environments -- 9 Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure -- 10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness -- 11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments -- 12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media -- Part IV. Globalising environments at risk -- 13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk -- 14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- 15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame 'expert', 'counter-expert' and 'lay public' definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or 'eco-warriors' and 'green guerrillas' play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones?.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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