1st Edition
Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication
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Introduction
Alison Anderson and Candice Howarth
Part one: Conceptual challenges
Chapter 1: Framing in climate crisis communication: an overview of research across frame production, media frames, audience frames, and framing effects
Lars Guenther and Daniela Mahl
Chapter 2: Climate change as a post-political issue
Pieter Maeseele
Chapter 3: Deliberation and democratic innovations in the climate crisis
Andy Yuille and Rebecca Willis
Chapter 4: Multi-level miscommunication: on fragmented communications and mismatched framings of climate crisis in multi-level governance
Erica Russell and Ian Christie
Chapter 5: Talk about it: the role of private-sphere conversations in climate crisis communication
Marlis Wullenkord and Maria Johansson
Part two: Methodological considerations
Chapter 6: Narrative analysis: the ideological dimensions of climate discourse
Shondel Nero and Raul Lejano
Chapter 7: Approaches to climate change visual research: methods, audiences, practices
R. Christopher Rogers
Chapter 8: Co-production approaches in climate communication
Alessandra Palange
Chapter 9: Discourse analysis in climate communication
Chris Russill and Ghadah Alrasheed
Chapter 10: Online research methods: designing studies of digital climate communications
Jill E. Hopke
Part three: Communicating climate science across cultures
Chapter 11: Transnational climate justice: anti-authoritarian climate movements and digital media in a (post-)pandemic world
Hanna E. Morris
Chapter 12: Climate justice and the media: the representation of Indigenous communities and climate migrants/refugees
Gabriela Ramirez Galindo
Chapter 13: Climate change crisis communication in Asia: state of the research field and case studies from India, Indonesia, and Malaysia
Raksha Pandya-Wood, Lucy Richardson, Azliyana Azhari, and Jagdish Thaker
Chapter 14: Exploring the multi-layered landscape of climate change communication in East Asia: a social process perspective
Jingyuan Wu
Chapter 15: Climate change communication research: a Latin American perspective
Bruno Takahashi, Iasmim Amiden dos Santos, María Fernanda Salas and Carolina Gil Posse
Part four: Journalism and news reportage
Chapter 16: Climate change in legacy and online news media: reviewing scholarly literature on production, presentation, and consumption
Mike S. Schäfer and Daniela Mahl
Chapter 17: Voices from the "front lines" of environmental crisis: supporting climate change journalism in the Global South
Gabi Mocatta, Nicholas Payne, Shaneka Saville and Kristy Hess
Chapter 18: Affordances of social media networks for climate change communication: potentialities and constraints
Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef
Chapter 19: Conspiracies as one of the dangers of online climate change communication: origins, spread, and impact
Marianna Poberezhskaya
Chapter 20: Climate crisis and an injunction to care: exploring women’s reportage on disasters in Australia
Deb Anderson and Nicolette Snowden
Part five: Activism and social movements
Chapter 21: Digital activism and transnational movements: climate change protest in the digital age
Susan Forde
Chapter 22: Climate movement message construction: a three-pronged challenge of collective identity, actions, and words
Sol Agin
Chapter 23: Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politics
Tânia R. Santos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva, and Anabela Carvalho
Chapter 24: Climate justice pedagogy: integrating science, activism, and care
Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, Anne Marie Todd, Costanza Rampini, and Eugene C. Cordero
Chapter 25: The challenge of being 'trusted messengers' on climate change: practical strategies for more effective climate change teaching in higher education
Olivia Taylor and Melissa Lazenby
Part six: Audiences and popular culture
Chapter 26: The walk, the talk, and the misdirection: digitalization and the deflection of climate crisis in US and UK screen culture
Hunter Vaughan
Chapter 27: Influencer or opinion leader? Different approaches to defining and identifying environmentally conscious individuals on social media
Yuliya Samofalova
Chapter 28: Promoting veganism: the cultural role of celebrities and influencers in the reframing of meat and dairy as a climate issue
Julie Doyle
Chapter 29: Good-natured climate comedy to the rescue
Beth Osnes-Stoedefalke and Maxwell T. Boykoff
Chapter 30: Communicating climate change on Tik Tok
Brigitte Huber
Part seven: Future directions
Chapter 31: Sustainable journalism in a crisis: taking agency and authorship
Casey Fung and Franzisca Weder
Chapter 32: Sense-making: how interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change
Declan Fahy
Chapter 33: Where next for carbon literacy? Tackling climate misinformation and addressing climate (in)justice
Brenda McNally
Index
Biography
Alison Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is former Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Environmental Communication and has published widely with over 5,700 citations on Google Scholar. Her published books include Media, Environment and the Network Society (Palgrave, 2014) and Media, Culture and the Environment (Routledge, 1997). She is a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Environmental Communication and the Journal of Environmental Media.
Candice Howarth (Ph.D.) is Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her published books include Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2022) and Resilience to Climate Change: Communication, Collaboration and Co-production (Palgrave, 2019). She has published widely with 1,700 citations on Google Scholar. She is Associate Deputy Editor of the journal Climatic Change and sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication.
This handbook brings together diverse perspectives to address the multifaceted nature of communicating the climate crisis across cultures and through various media, offering a much-needed and comprehensive resource for anyone seeking to engage with this critical global issue. Importantly, by framing the issue as a ‘crisis’, the book maintains a sense of urgency as well as hope, widening the lens of communication from information transmission to tackle issues of power, perception, culture, media and activism.”
- Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE, Director of Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, University of Bath, UK
Science diagnosed the problem. Technology is providing solutions. The challenge now is a social one. This book brings together some of the best communications researchers in the world to understand how we got to this point and to examine ways we can respond more effectively to the climate crisis.
- Professor Libby Lester, Director of the Monash Climate Change Communications Hub, Monash University, Australia
Addressing climate change is now essentially a political and communication challenge. This book responds expertly to this imperative, offering a scholarly and nuanced analysis of the various approaches necessary for effective communication across diverse cultures.
It moves beyond legacy media to discuss the role of social media influencers, Tik Tok and stand-up comedy, and beyond the Global North to include Russia, Asia and Latin America. A multi-dimensional, must-have research guide for scholars and practitioners alike.
- Dr James Painter, University of Oxford, UK
