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Environmental risks and the media / edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allan Adam Carter Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and the environment.
- Environmental health--Press coverage.
- Environmental health.
- Environmental protection--Press coverage.
- Environmental protection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 tensi
- 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 mediaPart 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-85728-995-1
- 1-134-61092-0
- 0-585-46021-3
- 1-134-61093-9
- 1-280-32586-0
- 0-203-16499-7
- 9780203164990
- OCLC:
- 560054456
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