Putting out a call for positive environmental action through communication, this volume studies how we, as humans, position ourselves in relation to, and as part of, the environment in texts, communicative events and the value systems they instantiate. Using the framework of ecolinguistics and ecoliteracy, the book discusses how the environmental crisis is communicated as an urgent global issue in a variety of media, texts and events. Making use of a wide range of sources, including news articles, institutional websites, artwork installations, promotional texts, signposting, and social campaigns, it explores how communicative actions can help meet the challenges of change. In doing so, it highlights the impact that language and communication can have in acting in, with and towards the environment seen as a living ecosystem, or ‘lifescape’. Meanwhile, the variety of viewpoints offered across the chapters allows for a reassessment of the way we experience, endorse, reframe and resist dominant and problematic value systems in communication, giving alternative and healthier perspectives to preserve the common and life-nurturing good of nature.

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist. The case was one of the first transmedia crime stories, shaped and influenced by its circulation between a variety of media platforms. The chapters show how the new media landscape impacts on the way in which different stakeholders, from suspects and victims' families to journalists and the general public, are engaging with criminal justice. While traditional news media played a significant role in the construction of innocence and guilt, social media offered users a worldwide forum to talk back in a way that both amplified and challenged the dominant media narrative biased in favour of a presumption of guilt. This book begins with a new and original foreword written by Yvonne Jewkes, University of Brighton, UK.

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist. The case was one of the first transmedia crime stories, shaped and influenced by its circulation between a variety of media platforms. The chapters show how the new media landscape impacts on the way in which different stakeholders, from suspects and victims' families to journalists and the general public, are engaging with criminal justice. While traditional news media played a significant role in the construction of innocence and guilt, social media offered users a worldwide forum to talk back in a way that both amplified and challenged the dominant media narrative biased in favour of a presumption of guilt. This book begins with a new and original foreword written by Yvonne Jewkes, University of Brighton, UK.