Climate change, media & culture : critical issues in global environmental communication / edited by Juliet Pinto, Robert E. Gutsche Jr, Paola Prado.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Climate Change, Media & Culture; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; About the Authors; About the Editors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Critical Challenges in Communicating Climate Change; Politics of Climate Change: Where Commerce Meets Culture; The Scholarly Challenge: Capturing Complexities of Climate Communication; In this Volume: Climate Change from the News to the Arts; References; Chapter 1: "Why is it Here, of All Places?": Debris Cleanup, Black Space, and Narratives of Marginalized Geographies in Post-Irma Miami-Dade; Introduction

Theoretical Framework: Journalistic Interpretations of Environmental Crisis and RacismCultural Meanings of News; News, Race, and Power; Environmental Racism and Communication; Methods; Analysis; Official Response: The Banality of Recovery; "The Mess Had to Go Somewhere": Garbage Disposal, Racial Invisibility, and the Politics of Placement; Virginia Key: Reconfiguring and Reimagining of a Black Space; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Comparing Theoretical Explanations for the Empirical Effects of Presenting Climate Change as a Health Issue on Social Media; Climate Change Message Frames

Theoretical ExplanationsPersonification; Construal Level Theory; Moral Foundations; Research Questions; Methods; Participants; Stimuli; Procedures; Measures; Harm/Care Morality.; Political Ideology.; Belief in Anthropomorphic Causes of Climate Change.; Emotional Responses.; Spatial Distance.; Temporal Distance.; Perceived Personal Relevance.; Perceived Severity of Climate Change.; Perception of Climate Change as a Moral Issue.; Policy Support Attitudes.; Personal History of Message-Relevant Health Issues.; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; References

Chapter 3: Goodbye, Miami? Reporting Climate Change as a Local StoryMiami as Ground Zero for Sea Level Rise; Defining Miami; Climate Change Journalism as a Social and Cultural Construction; Climate Change Reporting and the Tyranny of the News Peg; Method; Geographic Scope and Specificity of Climate Coverage; News Categories and Timing of Coverage; The Use of News Pegs; Reliability; Results; News Categories and Timing of Coverage; Use of News Pegs; Discussion; Distant Hypotheses, Local Realities Spur Coverage; A Network of Content; The Tyranny of Local Impacts; The Definition of "Miami."

ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 4: Who Matters in Climate Change Discourse in Alberta; Introduction; Voice; News Media Use and Trust in Sources; Methodology and Sampling; Survey Data; News Coverage; Findings; Survey Data; News Coverage; Scientists and Academics.; Discussion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 5: Broaching Agenda for Climate Change in Africa: A Perspective on Media Engagement with Climatic Issues in Ghana; Climate Change Reporting: Concepts and Literature; Climate Change and its Manifestations in Ghana; Dealing with Climate Change

Climate Change and Policy/Regulation Frameworks in Ghana

The acceleration of global climate change creates a nexus for the examination of power, political rhetoric, science communication, and sustainable development. This book takes an international view of twenty first century environmental communication to critically explore mediated expressions of climate change.

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