{"product_id":"interdisciplinary-essays-on-environment-and-culture-9781498528887","title":"Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future. Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on the role of the media in forging public discourse.   Contributors to the collection argue that today's media are failing humanity. Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world's citizens can act, the corpora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Acknowledgments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    Introduction: One Humanity, One Planet, and the Media                                                            Luigi Manca and Jean-Marie Kauth\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Section One: Imagining a Better Future for Humanity\t\t\t\t\t       Envisioning a Simple One Planet—One Humanity Utopia: Exploring John Lennon’s Imagine                                                                                                Kit O’Toole A Generic Cosmopolitanism Is Not an Alternative to the Damages of Globalization\t       Federico Francioni The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations: Reality or Utopia?                                               Joaquín Montero Utopian Hackers and the Drive to Change the World                                                                  Chris Birks\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Section Two: Media, Humanity, and the Common Good\t\t\t\t\t       An Hypothesis about the Role of Gateopener in the Westley-MacLean Model                           Luigi Manca\t Occupy the Media: Towards a Communication System for the 99 Percent                                 Steve Macek Public Radio and Public Access: Applying HD Radio Technology to a New Form of Broadcast Localism                                    Craig Stark The Press and the Politics of Genocide                                                                                         Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy Solidarity Know-How in Local Development: Translating Civil Virtues into Practice               Maria Lucia Piga The Communicative Dimension in a Globalized World and the Globalization of Social Rights                                                                                        Francesco Villa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Section Three: Environmental Science and the Media\t\t\t\t\t       Lost in Translation?: Public Perceptions and Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change Risks                                    Pierpaolo Duce Viable Scientific Communication and the Mass Media                                                               Timothy W. Marin The 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: An Opportunity Lost                                                       Elizabeth Dobbins Pope Francis on the Ecological Crisis: Its Nature, Causes, and Urgency                                     Martin Tracey\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Section Four: Ecocriticism and the Popular Imagination\t                                                                                                       Windmills and Dandelions and Polar Bears, Oh My!: Contested Icons of Environmental and Anti-Environmental Rhetoric                                         Jean-Marie Kauth\t Environmental Perceptions of College Students                                                                          Anne Marie Smith Good Company? The Non-Ephemeral Catalog as Intervention                                                  Elizabeth Kubek Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling as Global Society's Environmental Unconscious                         Jean-Marie Kauth Nature and Art: Seeing Beauty amidst the Ruins                                                                         William Scarlato\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Index                                                                                                                                             About the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040696140119,"sku":"9781498528887","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interdisciplinary-essays-on-environment-and-culture-9781498528887","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}