| Description |
1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Environmental issues; Ecology and social theory; Environmentalism and the news media; Cultural, spatial and temporal contexts; Culture; Space, place and temporality; Social constructionism; Structure of the book; Further reading; 1. Pressure politics and the news media; Introduction; Media theory; The effects tradition; Uses and gratifications; Critical theory; Conceptualizing the role of the media; The problem of determining media effects; Social problems and the media |
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Deviance and the news mediaWomen and the news media; Ethnicity and the news media; Cultivation analysis and the environment; Public arenas and issue entrepreneurs; Issue-attention cycles; Claims-making arenas; News discourse; Source strategies; Staging campaigns; Parliamentary arenas; Summary; Suggested further reading; 2. News production; Introduction; News production perspectives; Liberal-pluralism; Objectivity; Impartiality; Bias; Realism and idealism; Biases and constraints; News organization and news culture; Categorizing the environment; News formats; Divergences within the news media |
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Individual values and autonomyAdvocacy and moral partisanship; Autonomy; Source-media relations; Secrecy and information management; Summary; Suggested further reading; 3. The environmental lobby; Introduction; Defining social movements; Two competing traditions; The rise of the green movement in Western Europe and the USA; Post-war consensus politics; Visual politics and the mass media; The transformation of the environmental lobby; Party politics; A new politics?; Evidence for the rise of a broad-based environmental movement; Explanations for the rise of environmentalism |
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The changing class structureShifts in value systems; The role of claimsmakers; Objective evidence concerning environmental conditions; A multidimensional approach; Summary; Suggested further reading; 4. News and the social construction of the environment; Introduction; Risk and the environment as a social construct; Culture and risk; Nature promotion; Media framing of risk and the environment; Explanations of story selection; News values; Characteristics of environmental news items; Socio-economic and cultural factors; Media packages; News construction and official sources; Summary |
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Suggested further reading5. Contested ground: news sources and the media; Introduction; A convergence of approaches; The background; The agenda-setting role of the popular press; The seals story as an issue threshold for environmental awareness; The agenda-building role of sources; Summary; Suggested further reading; 6. Mediating the environment; Introduction; Live Aid; Media practitioners' views of the audience; Public opinion and news media representations of environmental issues; Recall and understanding; Risk perception; Texts and readers; Circuit of communication |
| Summary |
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics |
| Notes |
Competing discourses about nuclear power |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anderson, Alison
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| ISBN |
9781317756569 |
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1317756568 |
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