Media and environment : conflict, politics and the news

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Media and environment : conflict, politics and the news

Libby Lester

Polity, 2010

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  • : hardback

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Media & environment

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter One: Media and Environments. Chapter Two: Conflict and Risk. Chapter Three: News and Journalists. Chapter Four: Sources and Voices. Chapter Five: Movement and Protest. Chapter Six: Symbols and celebrities. Chapter Seven: Environment and engagement. References. Index.

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  • NCID
    BB04512730
  • ISBN
    • 9780745644028
    • 9780745644011
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 205 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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