Environmental journalism is an increasingly significant area for study within the broader field of journalism studies. It connects the concerns of politics, science, business, culture and the natural world whilst also exploring the boundaries between the local, regional and global. A central and typical focus for its concerns are the global summits convened to share scientific knowledge about global warming and to formulate policies to mitigate its consequences in particular locales. But reporting environmental change creates difficulties for journalists who are often ill equipped to resolve the uncertainties in the disputed scientific accounts of climate change. This research-based collection focuses on aspects of environmental journalism in Australia, France, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Contributors present case studies of media reporting of the environment, and explore considerations of objectivity and advocacy in journalistic coverage of the environment and climate change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.

Environmental journalism is an increasingly significant area for study within the broader field of journalism studies. It connects the concerns of politics, science, business, culture and the natural world whilst also exploring the boundaries between the local, regional and global. A central and typical focus for its concerns are the global summits convened to share scientific knowledge about global warming and to formulate policies to mitigate its consequences in particular locales. But reporting environmental change creates difficulties for journalists who are often ill equipped to resolve the uncertainties in the disputed scientific accounts of climate change. This research-based collection focuses on aspects of environmental journalism in Australia, France, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Contributors present case studies of media reporting of the environment, and explore considerations of objectivity and advocacy in journalistic coverage of the environment and climate change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.

This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.

This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.

"Journalismus als Kultur" bezeichnet eine Sichtweise, in der Journalismus als gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Leistung der Moderne verstanden wird. Die Betrachtung des Gegenstandes ist weder an eine bestimmte Gesellschaftstheorie gebunden, noch mit bestimmten Methoden verknupft, und ausserdem nicht von akademischen Fachgrenzen beengt.
Die Aufgabe, Journalismus als Kultur zu analysieren, bedarf des historischen Bewusstseins ebenso wie der aktuellen empirischen Befunde. Sie steht nicht zuletzt im lebendigen Dialog mit ihrem Gegenstand, dem Journalismus selbst. Diese Pluralitat des Erkenntnisstandpunktes schlagt sich in den Beitragen dieses Bandes nieder. Der Band ist Professor Dr. Wolfgang R. Langenbucher aus Anlass seines 60. Geburtstages gewidmet."

Irene Neverla Eine Flut von Publikationen zu den Entwicklungen der elektronisch- digitalen Netzwerke kommt zur Zeit auf den Markt. Ein Grossteil der Ver- oeffentlichungen betrachtet das Netz-Medium entweder aus dem Blickwin- kel der sozial- oder geisteswissenschaftlichen Nachbardisziplinen - allen voran Philosophie, Soziologie und Sprachwissenschaften - oder aus der Sicht der Praxis, vor allem des Journalismus. Das Anliegen des vorliegen- den Bandes hingegen ist es, eine Bestandsaufnahme aus dem Blickwinkel der Kommunikationswissenschaft zu erarbeiten. Das Ziel ist es, einige begriffliche Klarungen vorzunehmen, erste empirische Befunde zu syste- matisieren und den Raum abzustecken, in dem sich die theoretischen Bemuhungen und empirischen Forschungen bewegen. Kaum haben Praxis und Wissenschaft den elektronischen Entwick- lungsschub der 80er Jahre verkraftet, befinden wir uns schon mitten im nachsten, im digitalen Entwicklungsschub. Fur das neue Medium ist noch nicht einmal ein passender Namen gefunden: Multimedia ist gebrauch- lich; in der allgemeinen Diskussion steht oft Internet synonym fur die neue Medienlandschaft, wobei mit Internet meist nur dessen zuganglichster Teil, namlich das World Wide Web (WWW) gemeint ist.