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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165048603321

Titolo

Journalism and climate crisis : public engagement, media alternatives / / Robert A. Hackett. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-36199-7

1-138-95039-4

1-315-66873-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Communication and Society

Altri autori (Persone)

FordeSusan

Foxwell-NortonKerrie

GunsterShane

HackettRobert A

Disciplina

070.4/4936373874

070.44936373874

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Press coverage

Mass media and the environment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Democracy, climate crisis and journalism : normative touchstones / Robert A. Hackett -- 2. Engaging climate communication : audiences, frames, values and norms / Shane Gunster -- 3. Environmental protest, politics and media interactions : an overview / Susan Forde -- 4. From frames to paradigms : civic journalism, peace journalism and alternative media / Robert A. Hackett -- 5. Contesting conflict? : efficacy, advocacy and alternative media in British Columbia / Shane Gunster -- 6. Australian independent news media and climate change reporting : the case of COP21 / Kerrie Foxwell-Norton -- 7. Alternative approaches to environment coverage in the digital era : The Guardian's 'Keep it in the Ground' campaign / Susan Forde.

Sommario/riassunto

Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and communicative capacity. This book enquires into which approaches to journalism, as a particularly



important form of public communication, can best enable humanity to productively address climate crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous research, normative enquiry (what should journalism be doing?) and original empirical case studies of environmental communication and media coverage in Australia and Canada. Bringing together perspectives from the fields of environmental communication and journalism studies, the authors argue for forms of journalism that can encourage public engagement and mobilization to challenge the powerful interests vested in a high-carbon economy - 'facilitative' and 'radical' roles particularly well-suited to alternative media and alternative journalism. Ultimately, the book argues for a fundamental rethinking of relationships between journalism, publics, democracy and climate crisis. This book will interest researchers, students and activists in environmental politics, social movements and the media.