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Extreme Weather and Global Media (Hardcover)
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Extreme Weather and Global Media (Hardcover)
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In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium,
large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as
media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such
as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations
and widespread spectator communities. This timely collection
pinpoints the features of an often overlooked yet rapidly expanding
category of global media and analyzes both its forms and functions.
Specifically, contributors argue that the intense promotion and
consumption of 'extreme weather' events takes up the slack for the
public conversations society is not having about the environment,
and the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies the realization
that anthropogenic climate change has now reached a point of no
return. Incorporating a range of case studies of extreme weather
mediation in India, the UK, Germany, Sweden, the US, and Japan, and
exploring recent and ongoing disasters such as Superstorm Sandy,
the Fukushima nuclear crisis, flooding in Germany, and heat waves
in the UK, Extreme Weather and Global Media generates valuable
inquiry into the representational and social characteristics of the
new culture of extreme weather.
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