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"A timely and important book." -- Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
'Sifting through the chapters is rewarding, producing essays that are on target.' - Allan Mazur, Syracuse University
Sifting through the chapters is rewarding, producing essays that are on target. - Allan Mazur, Syracuse University
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Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, "natural" world with which humanity interferes are becoming increasingly contested, the media's methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks--from the "mad cow" crisis to global warming--are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters as well as "everyday" hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. The issues explored include: how the media frame "expert," "counter-expert" and "lay public" definitions of environmental risk; the role played by environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace in shaping media coverage; and the media's emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting.
"A timely and important book." -- Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
'Sifting through the chapters is rewarding, producing essays that are on target.' - Allan Mazur, Syracuse University
Sifting through the chapters is rewarding, producing essays that are on target. - Allan Mazur, Syracuse University
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Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, "natural" world with which humanity interferes are becoming increasingly contested, the media's methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks--from the "mad cow" crisis to global warming--are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters as well as "everyday" hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. The issues explored include: how the media frame "expert," "counter-expert" and "lay public" definitions of environmental risk; the role played by environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace in shaping media coverage; and the media's emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting.
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climate change reporting, climate change knowledge, youth homelessness, rough sleeping, green guerrillas, environmental sensibility, beef crisis, young homeless people, media career, homeless young people, environmental news, new genetic technologies, social rationality, industrial air pollution, reflexive modernisation, journalistic norms, grassroots networks, risk society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brent Spar, New York, North Sea, Cambridge University Press, Daily Express, Human Genome Project, Leicester University Press, Northern Echo, Associated Press, New Ecology, Sociological Review, The Mad Cow Crisis, Critical Studies, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Exxon Valdez, Frances Hall, Free Press, Friends of the Earth, Home Office, Oxford University Press, Stephen Dorrell, University of Chicago Press, Cardiff University, Daily Telegraph New!
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- The Politics of Risk Society by Jane Franklin on 4 pages
- Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Context by Jon Dovey on page 247, and page 259
- Youth Homelessness: The Construction of a Social Issue by Susan Hutson in Front Matter, and page 252
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- The New Genetics and the Public's Health by Robin Bunton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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