Environmental risks and the media /
Environmental risks and the media /
edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter.
- xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk -- Mapping environmental risks -- TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues -- Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy -- The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Denaturalising risk politics -- Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' -- 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics -- The media timescapes of BSE news -- Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project -- Bodies, risks and public environments -- Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure -- Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness -- The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments -- 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media -- Globalising environments at risk -- Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk -- Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- Mediating the risks of virtual environments -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. IV. 13. 14. 15.
0415214475 9780415214476 0415214467 9780415214469
99087826
Mass media and the environment
Environmental health--Press coverage
Environmental protection--Press coverage
P96.E57 / E57 2000
070.4493637
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk -- Mapping environmental risks -- TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues -- Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy -- The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Denaturalising risk politics -- Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' -- 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics -- The media timescapes of BSE news -- Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project -- Bodies, risks and public environments -- Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure -- Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness -- The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments -- 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media -- Globalising environments at risk -- Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk -- Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- Mediating the risks of virtual environments -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. IV. 13. 14. 15.
0415214475 9780415214476 0415214467 9780415214469
99087826
Mass media and the environment
Environmental health--Press coverage
Environmental protection--Press coverage
P96.E57 / E57 2000
070.4493637