Description
Book Synopsis* Major new introduction to the relationship between the media and environment, with a focus on the role played by news. * Covers key topics including: local, national and global issues, journalistic sources, public relations and protest, and the circulation of environmental meanings in the public sphere.
Trade Review"
Media and Environment offers a comprehensive discussion of approaches, methods and outcomes in research on media and environmental conflict, from a multidisciplinary, but nevertheless fundamentally sociological perspective. The book offers an excellent insight into the processes driving news coverage of environmental conflict, as well as into ways of conceptualizing the interplay of news, publics and political action. It will be a welcome addition to this burgeoning field of study."
Anders Hansen, University of Leicester "At a time when the global scale of environmental issues insisits upon public attention and action, the news institutions that report these issues have come under singular economic pressure. Libby lester writes a theoretically sophisticated and lucid analysis of the mediated construction of the public discourse on environmental risk under these conditions and of the political interests of the key players in this essential debate."
Andrew Rojecki, University of Illinois at Chicago
"As we teeter on the brink of environmental apocalypse, we may wonder: how did we get here? Libby Lester's insightful analysis of the role of news media in constructing our understanding of the multiple environmental crises engulfing the earth provides important clues. Through her global perspective on why we get the environmental news coverage that we do, Lester gives us some hope for charting a new direction."
Kevin DeLuca, University of Utah
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter One: Media and Environments.
Chapter Two: Conflict and Risk.
Chapter Three: News and Journalists.
Chapter Four: Sources and Voices.
Chapter Five: Movement and Protest.
Chapter Six: Symbols and celebrities.
Chapter Seven: Environment and engagement.
References.
Index.
