04487nam 2200793Ia 450 991022223280332120200520144314.01-85728-995-11-134-61092-00-585-46021-31-134-61093-91-280-32586-00-203-16499-710.4324/9780203164990 (CKB)1000000000249665(EBL)165544(OCoLC)560054456(SSID)ssj0000148515(PQKBManifestationID)11137606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148515(PQKBWorkID)10224864(PQKB)10916420(SSID)ssj0000079959(PQKBManifestationID)12015686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000079959(PQKBWorkID)10076410(PQKB)10976412(SSID)ssj0000295410(PQKBManifestationID)11274150(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295410(PQKBWorkID)10314631(PQKB)11516256(MiAaPQ)EBC165544(EXLCZ)99100000000024966519991214d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnvironmental risks and the media /edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20001 online resource (295 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-21447-5 0-415-21446-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index.Cover; Environmental Risks and the media; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk; Part I. Mapping environmental risks; 1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks; 2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues; 3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy; 4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas; Part II. Denaturalising risk politics5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society'6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics; 7. The media timescapes of BSE news; 8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project; Part III. Bodies, risks and public environments; 9 Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure; 10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness; 11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the mediaPart IV. Globalising environments at risk; 13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk; 14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media; 15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments; Bibliography; IndexEnvironmental 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 being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial.Examining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensiMass media and the environmentEnvironmental healthPress coverageEnvironmental protectionPress coverageMass media and the environment.Environmental healthPress coverage.Environmental protectionPress coverage.070.4/493637Allan Stuart1962-845831Adam Barbara1945-874639Carter Cynthia1959-845832MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910222232803321Environmental risks and the media2255159UNINA