Extreme weather and global media / edited by Julia Leyda and Diane Negra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leyda, Julia, editor.

Negra, Diane, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic extremes in mass media.

Storms in mass media.

Television weathercasting--Social aspects.

Television weathercasting.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

vi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This timely collection pinpoints the features of an often overlooked yet rapidly expanding category of global media and analyzes both its forms and functions. Specifically, contributors argue that the intense promotion and consumption of "extreme weather" events takes up the slack for the public conversations society is not having about the environment, and the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies the realization that anthropogenic climate change has now reached a point of no return. Incorporating a range of case studies of extreme weather mediation in India, the UK, Germany, Sweden, the US, and Japan, and exploring recent and ongoing disasters such as Superstorm Sandy, the Fukushima nuclear crisis, flooding in Germany, and heat waves in the UK. Extreme Weather and Global Media generates valuable inquiry into the representational and social characteristics of the new culture of extreme weather. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: extreme weather and global media / Julia Leyda and Diane Negra

Televising superstorm Sandy: new configurations of poverty and neoliberalism in extreme weather coverage / Jon Kraszewski

The eye of the storm: CCTV, surveillance and media representations of extreme weather / Justin Carville

Picturing high water: the 2013 floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado / Susanne Leikam

"Blowtorch Britain": labor, heat and neo-Victorian values in contemporary UK media / Paula Gilligan

Post-political crisis management: representations of extreme weather in Swedish media / Annika Olsson

Disaster data, data activism: grassroots responses to representating superstorm Sandy / Max Liboiron

Mangoes and monsoons: South Asian media coverage of environmental spectacles / Sujata Moorti

Rain with a chance of radiation: forecasting local and global risk after Fukushima / Laura Beltz Imaoka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Kraszewski, Jon. Televising superstorm Sandy.

Carville, Justin. Eye of the storm.

Leikam, Susanne. Picturing high water.

Gilligan, Paula. "Blowtorch Britain"

Olsson, Annika. Post-political crisis management in Swedish media.

Liboiron, Max, 1980- Disaster data, data activism.

Moorti, Sujata, 1963- Mangoes and monsoons.

Imaoka, Laura Beltz. Rain with a chance of radiation.

ISBN:

9781138798786

1138798789

9781138798793

1138798797

OCLC:

905221109