| Environmental Risks and the Media Revised Edition Contributor(s): Adam, Barbara (Editor), Allan, Stuart (Editor), Carter, Cynthia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415214467 ISBN-13: 9780415214469 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: "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 becoming increasingly contested, the media's methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks--from the "mad cow" crisis to global warming--are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters as well as "everyday" hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. The issues explored include: how the media frame "expert," "counter-expert" and "lay public" definitions of environmental risk; the role played by environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace in shaping media coverage; and the media's emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
| Dewey: 070.449 |
| LCCN: 99087826 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.42" W x 9.52" (1.38 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |