The media commons : globalization and environmental discourses / Patrick D. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Patrick D., author.

Series:

Geopolitics of information

The Geopolitics of Information

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and the environment.

Mass media and globalization.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick D. Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses. The media draws the cultural boundaries of our environmental imagination-and influences just who benefits. Murphy's analysis emphasizes social context, institutional alignments, and commercial media's ways of rendering discussion. He identifies and examines key terms, phrases, and metaphors as well as the ways consumers are presented with ideas like agency and the place of nature. What emerges is the link between pervasive messaging and an "environment" conjured by our media-saturated social imagination. As the author shows, today's complex, integrated media networks shape, frame, and deliver many of our underlying ideas about the environment. Increasingly-and ominously-individuals and communities experience these ideas not only in the developed world but in the increasingly consumption-oriented Global South. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Earth Discourses: Theorizing the Environment for Global Media Studies 17

2 Endless Growth: Neoliberalism and Global Media's Promethean Logic 41

3 Neo-Malthusian Entertainment: The Limits of Green TV 71

4 Battle of the Blogosphere: Monsanto versus the World 95

5 Amazonian Indigenous Green: Media and the Ecologically Noble Savage 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-180) and index.

ISBN:

9780252041037

0252041038

9780252082535

0252082532

OCLC:

962232259