Has the hype associated with the «revolutionary» potential of the World Wide Web and digital media for environmental activism been muted by the past two decades of lived experience? What are the empirical realities of the prevailing media landscape? Using a range of related disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this book analyze and explain the complicated relationship between environmental conflict and the media. They shine light on why media are central to historical and contemporary conceptions of power and politics in the context of local, national and global issues and outline the emerging mixture of innovation and reliance on established strategies in environmental campaigns. With cases drawn from different sections of the globe Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Latin America, China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, Africa the book demonstrates how conflicts emanate from and flow across multiple sites, regions and media platforms and examines the role of the media in helping to structure collective discussion, debate and decision-making.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Tree-Sitting in the Network Society |
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1 Environmental Conflict in a Global, Media Age: Beyond Dualisms |
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PART 1 "OLD" AND "NEW" TECHNOLOGIES |
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2 Campaigning Journalism: The Early Press, Environmental Advocacy and National Parks |
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3 Affecting Environments: Mobilizing Emotion and Twitter in the UK Save Our Forests Campaign |
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4 Clear Cuts on Clearcutting: YouTube, Activist Videos and Narrative Strategies |
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5 Photography, Technology, and Ecological Criticism: Beyond the Sublime Image of Disaster |
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PART 2 ACTIVISM AND CAMPAIGNS |
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6 Not So Soft? Travel Journalism, Environmental Protest, Power and the Internet |
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7 Contesting Extractivism: Media and Environmental Citizenship in Latin America |
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8 Online Media, Flak and Local Environmental Politics |
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9 Celebrity, Environmentalism and Conservation |
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10 Dodgy Science or Global Necessity? Local Media Reporting of Marine Parks |
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PART 3 COMMUNICATING CRISES |
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11 Greening Wildlife Documentary |
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12 Whither the "Moral Imperative"? The Focus and Framing of Political Rhetoric in the Climate Change Debate in Australia |
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13 As Fukushima Unfolds: Media Meltdown and Public Empowerment |
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14 Public Communication, Environmental Crises and Nuclear Disasters: A Comparative Approach |
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15 Climate Change, Media Convergence and Public Uncertainty |
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16 "That Sinking Feeling": Climate Change, Journalism and Small Island States |
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17 "Skeptics" and "Believers": The Anti-Elite Rhetoric of Climate Change Skepticism in the Media |
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18 Media, Civil Society and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China |
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| Afterword |
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| References |
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| Contributors |
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Libby Lester (PhD, University of Melbourne) is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News (2010) and co-editor with Simon Cottle of Transnational Protests and the Media (Peter Lang, 2011). Her research has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Journalism, Journalism Studies and Media International Australia. She has also worked as a journalist for leading Australian newspapers and magazines. Brett Hutchins (PhD, University of Queensland) is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Research Unit in Media Studies at Monash University. His most recent articles appear in Media, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication and Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. His books include Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport (2012).
