Are you getting the real news on environmental issues? Or are the
reports you are hearing slanted to meet the special interests of
the reporters? The government? A lobbying group? How are our views
on the Torrey Canyon oil spill, the demise of Brazilian rain
forests, or the Chernobyl disaster shaped by individuals or
organizations that know how to use the media to best deliver their
message?
Media, Culture and the Environment provides an accessible
introduction to key issues and debates surrounding the media
politics of risk assessment and the environment. Anderson looks at
nature as contested terrain and reveals how news sources use it to
compete for our emotions and attention. She shows how framings of
risk in relation to the environment are influenced by social,
political, and cultural factors, but she also rejects extreme
versions of social constructionism.
The book moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries by
synthesizing recent debates in cultural theory and media studies
with key developments in human geography. It offers an in-depth
analysis of pressure politics and environmental lobbying groups,
while examining the production, transmission and negotiation
language of news discourse. The examples, drawn from both Europe
and North America, include the tremendous headline controversies
over oil spills and killing of baby seals. Difficult issues,
clearly surveyed and incisively presented, make this book essential
reading for anyone interested in how and why journalists handle
environmental news in the ways they do.
"A rigorous and important contribution to this significant new
dimension of media studies. The book's international scope and
sophisticated treatment of thesocial construction of the
environment will make it valuable to scholars and students in
communication, journalism, cultural studies and related fields". --
Mike Budd, Florida Atlantic University
-- One of the first books to combine media and environmental
studies.
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