Mette Marie Roslyng is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on how discourses of science, technology, and the environment are represented, contested, and politicised in the media and in public debates.Anna Rantasila is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She’s also a member of the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab at LUT. Her current work focuses on affect and emotion in various online environments, particularly in the context of news, disinformation, and popular culture.Anna Maria Jönsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has extensive experience of research about journalism and climate change, science communication, and public engagement.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communicationPart I: Environmental and climate truths in media2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic pollutants in Sweden3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledgePart 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of conspiracy discourse7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemicPart 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?Index

Mette Marie Roslyng is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on how discourses of science, technology, and the environment are represented, contested, and politicised in the media and in public debates.Anna Rantasila is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She’s also a member of the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab at LUT. Her current work focuses on affect and emotion in various online environments, particularly in the context of news, disinformation, and popular culture.Anna Maria Jönsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has extensive experience of research about journalism and climate change, science communication, and public engagement.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communicationPart I: Environmental and climate truths in media2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic pollutants in Sweden3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledgePart 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of conspiracy discourse7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemicPart 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?Index