Extreme weather and global media / edited by Julia Leyda and Diane Negra.

Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Descriptionvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorLeyda, Julia editor.
Other author/creatorNegra, Diane, 1966- editor.
Included WorkKraszewski, Jon Televising superstorm Sandy.
Included WorkCarville, Justin. Eye of the storm.
Included WorkLeikam, Susanne. Picturing high water.
Included WorkGilligan, Paula. Blowtorch Britain.
Included WorkOlsson, Annika. Post-political crisis management in Swedish media.
Included WorkLiboiron, Max. Disaster data, data activism.
Included WorkMoorti, Sujata, 1963- Mangoes and monsoons.
Included WorkImaoka, Laura Beltz. Rain with a chance of radiation.
Contents Introduction: extreme weather and global media / Julia Leyda and Diane Negra -- Televising superstorm Sandy: new configurations of poverty and neoliberalism in extreme weather coverage / Jon Kraszewski -- The eye of the storm: CCTV, surveillance and media representations of extreme weather / Justin Carville -- Picturing high water: the 2013 floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado / Susanne Leikam -- "Blowtorch Britain": labor, heat and neo-Victorian values in contemporary UK media / Paula Gilligan -- Post-political crisis management: representations of extreme weather in Swedish media / Annika Olsson -- Disaster data, data activism: grassroots responses to representating superstorm Sandy / Max Liboiron -- Mangoes and monsoons: South Asian media coverage of environmental spectacles / Sujata Moorti -- Rain with a chance of radiation: forecasting local and global risk after Fukushima / Laura Beltz Imaoka.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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