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Environmental risks and the media / edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415214475
  • 9780415214476
  • 0415214467
  • 9780415214469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4493637
LOC classification:
  • P96.E57 E57 2000
Contents:
List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk -- Pt. I. Mapping environmental risks -- 1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- 2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues -- 3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy -- 4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Pt. II. Denaturalising risk politics -- 5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' -- 6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics -- 7. The media timescapes of BSE news -- 8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project -- Pt. III. Bodies, risks and public environments -- 9. Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure -- 10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness -- 11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments -- 12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media -- Pt. IV. Globalising environments at risk -- 13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk -- 14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- 15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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 -- Pt. I. Mapping environmental risks -- 1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks -- 2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues -- 3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy -- 4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas -- Pt. II. Denaturalising risk politics -- 5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' -- 6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics -- 7. The media timescapes of BSE news -- 8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project -- Pt. III. Bodies, risks and public environments -- 9. Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure -- 10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness -- 11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments -- 12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media -- Pt. IV. Globalising environments at risk -- 13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk -- 14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media -- 15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments -- Bibliography -- Index.

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