Media and Environment
Conflict, Politics and the News
1. Auflage November 2010
200 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
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.
approaches, methods and outcomes in research on media and
environmental conflict, from a multidisciplinary, but nevertheless
fundamentally sociological perspective. The book offers an
excellent insight into the processes driving news coverage of
environmental conflict, as well as into ways of conceptualizing the
interplay of news, publics and political action. It will be a
welcome addition to this burgeoning field of study."
Anders Hansen, University of Leicester
"At a time when the global scale of environmental issues
insisits upon public attention and action, the news institutions
that report these issues have come under singular economic
pressure. Libby lester writes a theoretically sophisticated
and lucid analysis of the mediated construction of the public
discourse on environmental risk under these conditions and of the
political interests of the key players in this essential
debate."
Andrew Rojecki, University of Illinois at Chicago
"As we teeter on the brink of environmental apocalypse, we may
wonder: how did we get here? Libby Lester's insightful analysis of
the role of news media in constructing our understanding of the
multiple environmental crises engulfing the earth provides
important clues. Through her global perspective on why we get the
environmental news coverage that we do, Lester gives us some hope
for charting a new direction."
Kevin DeLuca, University of Utah
Lester is Associate Professor of Journalism, Media and
Communications at the University of Tasmania
