Environmental Risks and the Media
| Author/creator | Allan, Stuart, 1962- Editor |
| Other author | Adam, Barbara 1945- Editor |
| Other author | Beck, Ulrich Foreword by |
| Other author | Carter, Cynthia 1959- Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor] |
| Description | 296 p. ill 00.925 x 00.625 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <em>Environmental Risks and the Media</em>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.<br>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? |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 99087826 |
| ISBN | 9780415214469 |
| ISBN | 0415214467 (Trade Cloth) Out of Stock Indefinitely |
| Standard identifier# | 9780415214469 |
| Stock number | 00081154 |
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