2nd Edition

Environment, Media and Communication

By Anders Hansen Copyright 2019
262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Media and communication processes are central to how we come to know about and make sense of our environment and to the ways in which environmental concerns are generated, elaborated, manipulated and contested. The second edition of Environment, Media and Communication builds on the first edition’s framework for analysing and understanding media and communication roles in the politics of the... Read more

List of boxes

List of exercises

Series editor’s preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Communication and the construction of environmental issues

Chapter 3: Making claims and managing news about the environment

Chapter 4: The environment as news: news values, news media and journalistic practices

Chapter 5: Popular culture, nature and environmental issues

Chapter 6: Selling ‘nature/the natural’: Advertising, nature, national identity, nostalgia and the environmental image

Chapter 7: Media, publics, politics and environmental issues

Chapter 8: Environment, media and communication –looking back, looking forward

Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Communication; Founder and immediate-past Chair of the IAMCR Group on Environment, Science and Risk Communication; Founding member, and Executive Board Member and Secretary 2011–2015, of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA).

"The second edition of Anders Hansen's Environment, Media, and Communication makes an important contribution to the growing corpus of environmental communication textbooks available for undergraduate and graduate students. Hansen's volume provides a solid grounding in theories of media psychology, structures, and patterns of audience engagement, and is bolstered by updated case studies as well as careful attention paid to the transformational role of social media in our increasingly complex and cluttered information environment. I look forward to using it in my own environmental communication class!" - Stephen Depoe, Professor of Communication and Department Head, University of Cincinnati, USA

"An understanding of environmental communication is critical to addressing current global challenges, and this new edition of Environment, Media and Communication provides students and practitioners with an indispensable guide to this swiftly changing field. Hansen is one of the leading founders of this multidisciplinary area of research and his book provides an excellent overview of a large body of research, including an analysis of the impact of digital and social media. A new concluding chapter surveys just how far the study of environmental communication has come over the last couple of decades and provides important pointers for its future directions." - Alison Anderson, Associate Head of School, University of Plymouth, UK, and Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Australia

"Hansen’s updated textbook accomplishes the unenviable task of keeping its readers abreast on both the quickly changing environment and media technologies, and does so in an accessible and engaging manner." - Jennifer Peeples, Professor, Utah State University, USA