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Who speaks for the climate? : making sense of media reporting on climate change / Maxwell T. Boykoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521115841
  • 9780521115841
  • 052113305X
  • 9780521133050
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.44936373874 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903 .B68 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Cultural politics and climate change; 2. Media coverage of climate change over time; 3. The great climate gestalt swindle; 4. Multi-scale factors shaping media reporting of climate change; 5. Journalistic norms and media portrayals; 6. 'Balance as bias' and contrarian influences in the public sphere; 7. Links between media representations and public awareness, engagement, evaluation of policy alternatives; 8. Looking to the future.
Summary: "The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues - from news to entertainment - are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences - from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors - shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Cultural politics and climate change; 2. Media coverage of climate change over time; 3. The great climate gestalt swindle; 4. Multi-scale factors shaping media reporting of climate change; 5. Journalistic norms and media portrayals; 6. 'Balance as bias' and contrarian influences in the public sphere; 7. Links between media representations and public awareness, engagement, evaluation of policy alternatives; 8. Looking to the future.

"The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues - from news to entertainment - are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences - from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors - shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges"-- Provided by publisher.

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