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UNISA996683776503316 |
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Autore |
O'Neill Saffron |
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The Visual Life of Climate Change |
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Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2026 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (0 pages) |
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Front Cover -- The Visual Life of Climate Change -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: 'Just Tell Me, What's the Best Climate Image?' -- Framing for understanding visual climate communication -- Climate change has an image problem -- About this book -- 2 Adaptation: Heatwaves and Sea Level Rise -- Heatwaves -- 'Fun in the sun' and 'the idea of heat' -- Heatwave visuals marginalise vulnerable people -- Beyond 'fun in the sun' for heatwave visuals -- Sea level rise -- Aerial imagery of coral atolls -- Young girl in floodwater -- Sea level rise imagery removes agency of island dwellers -- Pacific islanders' challenge dominant visual narratives -- Where to next, for climate adaptation images? -- 3 Impacts: Polar Bears and Flooding -- The polar bear -- Polar bears are polar bears -- Polar bears mean politics -- Polar bears mean climate change -- Flooding -- Flooding means suffering -- Flooding means 'getting on with it' -- Implicit visual cues -- Where to next, for climate impact images? -- 4 Energy: Smokestacks and Wind Turbines -- Smokestacks -- Wind turbines -- Putting people in the (energy) picture -- Where to next, for climate and energy imagery? -- 5 Science: Climate Stripes and Weather Maps -- Burning Embers -- Climate Spirals and Stripes -- Weather maps -- Where to next, for climate science visuals? -- 6 People: Politicians and Protesters -- Political figures -- Protesters -- Mass protest -- Opinion shapers online -- Where are the everyday people? -- 7 Conclusion: The Flow and Friction of Climate Images -- Climate |
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visuals move through a complex, global media ecosystem -- Organisations, groups, individuals -- News organisations -- Image agencies -- The images in people's minds -- Information architecture -- Managing, sorting, searching -- Culture of the click. |
Platform and format -- The colour of climate -- A critical approach to climate visual communication -- Climate visuals and the growth of generative-AI -- Towards a more inclusive and responsible climate visual discourse -- References -- Index. |
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Images can play a key role in communication - but climate change imagery can be formulaic and narrow in perspective.Going beyond polar bears and wildfires, this book is a manifesto for opening up the visual discourse on climate. |
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