The weather obsession / Lawrie Zion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zion, Lawrie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weather forecasting--Australia.

Weather forecasting.

Australia. Bureau of Meteorology.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2017.

Summary:

We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our fascination with all things climatic.Weather information now pervades everything from our mobile devices to online news and social media, while the Bureau of Meteorology is a daily destination for millions of us. What has made weather so much more than a mere talking point? What happens when this data becomes big business? And what is at stake when it comes to how the media frames our understanding of the relationship between extreme weather and climate change? The Weather Obsession lifts the lid on our insatiable appetite for meteorological media and shows that while we might not have stopped worrying about the forecast, almost all of us have learnt to love the BOM.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of acronyms

1 Plugged into the weather

2 The evolution of weather media

3 Bureau of Meteorology revisited

4 Catastrophic

5 The weather zone

6 Citizen weather

7 Just do the weather

8 The weather becomes the news

9 Media storm

10 The long-term forecast

Notes

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522868425

0522868428

OCLC:

987616510