1st Edition

Visual Environmental Communication

Edited By Anders Hansen, David Machin Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

In 2008, the editors published a well-cited journal paper arguing that while scholarly work on media representations of environmental issues had made substantial progress in textual analysis there had been much less work on visual representations. This is surprising given the increasingly visual nature of media and communication, and in light of emerging evidence that the environment is... Read more

1. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Researching Visual Environmental Communication  2. Visualizing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Debate  3. Imaging Toxins  4. Selling Nature In a Resource-based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands  5. “Single-minded, compelling, and unique”: Visual Communications, Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding  6. The Nature of Time: How the Covers of the World’s Most Widely Read Weekly News Magazine Visualize Environmental Affairs  7. Sporting Nature(s): Wildness, the Primitive, and Naturalizing Imagery in MMA and Sports Advertisements  8. Mobilizing Artists: Green Patriot Posters, Visual Metaphors, and Climate Change Activism

Biography

Anders Hansen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK. He has published extensively on media and the environment, including Environment, Media and Communication and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (co-edited with Robert Cox). He is founder and ex-Chair of the IAMCR Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group, founding member and Secretary to the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), and Associate Editor for Environmental Communication.



David Machin is Professor of Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden. He has published extensively on visual communication and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, such as Introduction to Multimodal Analysis, Global Media Discourse and The Language of War Monuments and a recent multidisciplinary edited collection called Visual Communication. He is co-editor for the international peer reviewed journals Journal of Language and Politics and Social Semiotics.