Joanne Garde-Hanson is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. She is a media specialist with a particular interest in water and its depiction in the media. She has been co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories and Digital Stories of Flooding projects and is co-investigator on the National Environmental Research Council project Developing a Drought Narrative Resource.

This book offers an important and original contribution to burgeoning scholarship on the cultures, practices and values associated with water. It draws out the key role of media in archiving, narrating, remembering and forgetting water's entanglements with human lives - from mediations of women in drought, to intergenerational exchange and learning around historical floods. The book provides a rich, vivid account that makes a case for an ecologically-aware analysis of water/media for scholars and students of media studies and cognate disciplines.

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Why media and water? Part 1 Communication1 Media templates for representing water 2 Deluge and Tempest in the BBC archives 3 Socially mediating water for digital hydro-citizenship Part 2 Culture4 Story-ing water: Liquidity, bubbles, storage 5 Remembering and re-mediating women in drought 6 Forgetting water: Developing a flood memory app Part 3 Perception7 The cultural value of water and water's impact on cultural values 8 Riparian media for marginal communities 9 Waterproofing media and memory for flood risk Conclusion References Index

Joanne Garde-Hanson is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. She is a media specialist with a particular interest in water and its depiction in the media. She has been co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories and Digital Stories of Flooding projects and is co-investigator on the National Environmental Research Council project Developing a Drought Narrative Resource.

This book offers an important and original contribution to burgeoning scholarship on the cultures, practices and values associated with water. It draws out the key role of media in archiving, narrating, remembering and forgetting water's entanglements with human lives - from mediations of women in drought, to intergenerational exchange and learning around historical floods. The book provides a rich, vivid account that makes a case for an ecologically-aware analysis of water/media for scholars and students of media studies and cognate disciplines.

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Why media and water? Part 1 Communication1 Media templates for representing water 2 Deluge and Tempest in the BBC archives 3 Socially mediating water for digital hydro-citizenship Part 2 Culture4 Story-ing water: Liquidity, bubbles, storage 5 Remembering and re-mediating women in drought 6 Forgetting water: Developing a flood memory app Part 3 Perception7 The cultural value of water and water's impact on cultural values 8 Riparian media for marginal communities 9 Waterproofing media and memory for flood risk Conclusion References Index

Joanne Garde-Hanson is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. She is a media specialist with a particular interest in water and its depiction in the media. She has been co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories and Digital Stories of Flooding projects and is co-investigator on the National Environmental Research Council project Developing a Drought Narrative Resource.

This book offers an important and original contribution to burgeoning scholarship on the cultures, practices and values associated with water. It draws out the key role of media in archiving, narrating, remembering and forgetting water's entanglements with human lives - from mediations of women in drought, to intergenerational exchange and learning around historical floods. The book provides a rich, vivid account that makes a case for an ecologically-aware analysis of water/media for scholars and students of media studies and cognate disciplines.

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Why media and water? Part 1 Communication1 Media templates for representing water 2 Deluge and Tempest in the BBC archives 3 Socially mediating water for digital hydro-citizenship Part 2 Culture4 Story-ing water: Liquidity, bubbles, storage 5 Remembering and re-mediating women in drought 6 Forgetting water: Developing a flood memory app Part 3 Perception7 The cultural value of water and water's impact on cultural values 8 Riparian media for marginal communities 9 Waterproofing media and memory for flood risk Conclusion References Index