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Environmental Risks and the Media
by Barbara Adam
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- 0415214475
- ISBN 13
- 9780415214476
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New. Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial. Examining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame 'expert', 'counter-expert' and 'lay public' definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or 'eco-warriors' and 'green guerrillas' play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones?
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- Title
- Environmental Risks and the Media
- Author
- Barbara Adam
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0415214475
- ISBN 13
- 9780415214476
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London:
- This edition first published
- May 15, 2000
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