Social Media and Oil in Southern California

Greenwashing Los Angeles

AvJason L. Jarvis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles interrogates the politics of invisibility that permeates Southern California’s oil industry. Most residents are completely unaware that hospitals, schools, businesses, and homes are built among the thousands of active wells in Los Angeles County. Since the early 1900’s, the oil industry used social media to greenwash itself and obscure the material consequences of drilling and refining. From postcards to YouTube, social media has been a key tool in the arsenal of the fossil fuel industry. Jason L. Jarvis argues that oil–not Hollywood–is the key industry that drives the California dream. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, and rhetoric will find this book of particular interest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-15
Mått:157 x 237 x 15 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Antal sidor:116
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793630995

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Jason L. Jarvis is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

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“Jason L. Jarvis works at the intersection of environmental and visual rhetorics to provide important insights into the functions of advertising campaigns by the petroleum industry and their role in obscuring environmental impacts and harms in Los Angeles. Additionally, the book provides astute observations and clear arguments that track the evolution of social media from postcards to YouTube as it simultaneously lays out the consequences for greenwashing oil production and refining in Southern California. For anyone interested in environmental or visual rhetorics this is an essential read.”

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Naturalizing Derrick: Postcards from Los AngelesChapter 3: Dreamland: Petroleum PostcardsChapter 4: Youtube Butterflies: El SegundoChapter 5: Soccer and Greenwashing in Los AngelesChapter 6: Conclusion: Greenwashed, Not GreenWorks CitedAbout the Author