Who Speaks for the Climate?

Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

AvMaxwell T. Boykoff

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues - from news to entertainment - are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences - from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors - shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-22
Mått:158 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521115841

Utforska kategorier

Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He teaches in the Environmental Studies program and is Adjunct Faculty in the Geography department. In addition, he is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Max has ongoing interests in climate adaptation, cultural politics and environmental governance, science-policy interactions, and political economy and the environment. His research has been mentioned in a range of outlets such as Science, Nature, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Grist, Utne Reader, La Rázon (Spain) and National Public Radio (US).

Recensioner i media

'People's understandings of climate change are shaped more by the media and their cacophony of voices than they are by the systematic enquiries and endeavours of climate scientists. Boykoff's Who Speaks for the Climate? arrives just at the right time to offer you the authoritative guide to how climate change is made, affirmed and denied in print, broadcast, internet or new social media.' Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia

Innehållsförteckning

1. The world stage: cultural politics and climate change; 2. Roots and culture: exploring media coverage of climate change through history; 3. Fight semantic drift: confronting issue conflation; 4. Placing climate complexity in context; 5. Climate stories: how journalistic norms shape media content; 6. Signals and noise: covering human contributions to climate change; 7. Carbonundrums: media consumption in the public sphere; 8. A light in the attic? Ongoing media representations of climate change.