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PUBLICATIONID : 22925
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 3
TYPE : Review; Book Chapter
TITLE : We Speak for the Trees: Media Reporting on the Environment
ORIG_TITLE : We Speak for the Trees: Media Reporting on the Environment
BTITLE : Annual Review of Environment and Resources
AUTHOR : Boykoff, MT
FIRST_AUTHOR : Boykoff, MT
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : [Boykoff, Maxwell T.] Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; [Boykoff, Maxwell T.] Univ Colorado, Environm Studies Program, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
PUBLISHER : ANNUAL REVIEWS
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.
BEGINPAGE : 431
ENDPAGE : 457
VOLUME : 34
YEAR : 2009
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : WOS:000272082000019
CITATION : 13
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2013-02-07 16:12:53
ISSN : 1543-5938
IDS : 523NW
DOI : 10.1146/annurev.environ.051308.084254
ABSTRACT : This review article surveys the role of the media in communicating environmental issues. Media representations-from news to entertainment-provide critical links between formal environmental science and politics and the realities of how people experience and interact with their environments. People abundantly turn to media-such as television, newspapers, magazines, radio, and Internet-to help make sense of the many complexities relating to environmental science and governance that (un)consciously shape our lives. I examine how multiscale factors have shaped media coverage in complex, dynamic, and nonlinear ways. These inquiries are situated in historical context as well as in larger processes of cultural politics and environmental change. Discussions here also touch on how media portrayals influence ongoing public understanding and engagement. Connections between media in formation and behaviors are not straightforward, is coverage does not determine engagement. Nonetheless, this article explores how media reports influence the spectrum of possibilities for different forms of environmental governance.
KEYWORDS : communication; cultural politics; discourse; governance; news
KEYWORD_PLUS : ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE-CHANGE; MASS-MEDIA; UNITED-STATES; NEWSPAPER COVERAGE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; FRAMING SCIENCE; NEWS-COVERAGE; POLITICS; DISCOURSE; PRESS
AREA : Environmental Sciences & Ecology
FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : boykoff@colorado.edu
PUBLICATION : ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES
PLACE : PALO ALTO
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 22925
PAGES : 431-457
ISBN : 978-0-8243-2334-9
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Boykoff, MT (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : Boykoff, Maxwell T.
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