{"product_id":"media-and-environment-conflict-politics-and-the-news-paperback-softback-9780745644028","title":"Media and Environment; Conflict, Politics and the News (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745644028","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedia and Environment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConflict, Politics and the News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLibby Lester (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745644028, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 November 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.1 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.299 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMedia and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive discussion of approaches, methods and outcomes in research on media and environmental conflict, from a multidisciplinary, but nevertheless fundamentally sociological perspective.  The book offers an excellent insight into the processes driving news coverage of environmental conflict, as well as into ways of conceptualizing the interplay of news, publics and political action.  It will be a welcome addition to this burgeoning field of study.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnders Hansen, University of Leicester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"At a time when the global scale of environmental issues insisits upon public attention and action, the news institutions that report these issues have come under singular economic pressure.  Libby lester writes a theoretically sophisticated and lucid analysis of the mediated construction of the public discourse on environmental risk under these conditions and of the political interests of the key players in this essential debate.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew Rojecki, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As we teeter on the brink of environmental apocalypse, we may wonder: how did we get here? Libby Lester's insightful analysis of the role of news media in constructing our understanding of the multiple environmental crises engulfing the earth provides important clues. Through her global perspective on why we get the environmental news coverage that we do, Lester gives us some hope for charting a new direction.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKevin DeLuca, University of Utah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eConflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debate. This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between media roles and environmental futures, and of the ways in which news works to influence environmental decision-making across boundaries and over time.  \u003cp\u003e Drawing on a range of international examples, Dr Libby Lester invites readers to develop a nuanced understanding of changing media practices and dynamics by connecting local, national and global environmental issues, journalistic practices and news sources, public relations and protests, and the symbolic and strategic circulation of meanings in the public sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMedia and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e argues that news maintains a central role in environmental politics. As such, it asks about our understandings of place and community, of local responsibility and global citizenship, and how communication as a society on these crucial issues affects our lives, now and into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Media and Environments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Conflict and Risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: News and Journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Sources and Voices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Movement and Protest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Symbols and celebrities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Environment and engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Electronics%20\u0026amp;%20communications%20engineering%20%5BTJ%5D%22\"\u003eTJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407311237400,"sku":"9780745644028","price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745644028.jpg?v=1784160828","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/media-and-environment-conflict-politics-and-the-news-paperback-softback-9780745644028","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}