296 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation as a matter of media technologies, texts, or institutions, this text adopts a somewhat different... Read more

Nature.  Mass Mediation.  Modern Environmentalism.  A History of the Present.  A ‘Propedeutic’ Approach  Part 1:  1. The Nature of Nature  2. The Nature of Observation  Part 2:  3. The Nature of Mathesis  4. The Nature of Commodification  5. The Nature of Industrialization  6. The Nature of Sublimation  7. The Nature of Incorporation  8. The Nature of Environmentalism.  Epilogue: Climactic Change

Biography

Nils Lindahl Elliot is a researcher in cultural and environmental studies.  His research specialism is in the social semeiotics of nature. 

"Students will particularly appreciate the reiteration of debates on the nature of nature and processes of observation and communication." Anna Davies, Cultural Geographies