{"product_id":"media-and-environment-9780745644028","title":"Media and Environment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMedia and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnders Hansen, University of Leicester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew Rojecki, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKevin DeLuca, University of Utah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Media and Environments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Conflict and Risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: News and Journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Sources and Voices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Movement and Protest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Symbols and celebrities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Environment and engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404384346455,"sku":"9780745644028","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745644028.jpg?v=1730486293","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-and-environment-9780745644028","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}