LEADER 04487nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910222232803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-85728-995-1 010 $a1-134-61092-0 010 $a0-585-46021-3 010 $a1-134-61093-9 010 $a1-280-32586-0 010 $a0-203-16499-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203164990 035 $a(CKB)1000000000249665 035 $a(EBL)165544 035 $a(OCoLC)560054456 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000148515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137606 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10224864 035 $a(PQKB)10916420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000079959 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12015686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000079959 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10076410 035 $a(PQKB)10976412 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000295410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274150 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10314631 035 $a(PQKB)11516256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165544 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000249665 100 $a19991214d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEnvironmental risks and the media /$fedited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-21447-5 311 $a0-415-21446-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 politics 327 $a5. 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 environments 327 $a12. '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; Index 330 $aEnvironmental 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 tensi 606 $aMass media and the environment 606 $aEnvironmental health$xPress coverage 606 $aEnvironmental protection$xPress coverage 615 0$aMass media and the environment. 615 0$aEnvironmental health$xPress coverage. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection$xPress coverage. 676 $a070.4/493637 701 $aAllan$b Stuart$f1962-$0845831 701 $aAdam$b Barbara$f1945-$0874639 701 $aCarter$b Cynthia$f1959-$0845832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910222232803321 996 $aEnvironmental risks and the media$92255159 997 $aUNINA