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PUBLICATIONID : 46985
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 3
TYPE : Chapter in a Book
TITLE : Media representational practices in the Anthropocene Era
ORIG_TITLE : Media representational practices in the Anthropocene Era
AUTHOR : Boykoff, M.
EDITOR : Baveye, P., Mysiak, M. and M. Laba
PUBLISHER : Springer-Verlag Publishing
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Uncertainties in Environmental Modeling and Consequences for Policy Making
BEGINPAGE : 339
ENDPAGE : 350
PUBLISH_DATE : December
YEAR : 2009
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2757-2009.61.pdf
REFEREED : 1
CREATE_TIME : 1273616641
RESOURCE : CSTPR
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2012-08-23 10:52:07
ABSTRACT : Media representational practices are vitally important to conceptions of challenges and possibilities for action to address the issue of anthropogenic climate change. They shape processes between science, policy and the public and thereby influence issues of governance and practices in our everyday lives and livelihoods in the twenty-first century. Many complex factors contribute to media representation practices: external (such as political economic challenges associated with corporate media consolidation) as well as internal influences (such as contributions from the deployment of journalistic norms). In this chapter, I touch on salient and swirling factors that contribute to how issues, events and information have often become climate ‘news’ about anthropogenic climate change. To the extent that these pressures have led to problematic representational practices, media coverage of climate change has contributed to misperceptions, misleading debates, and divergent understandings. Such practices are therefore detrimental to efforts that seek to enlarge rather than constrict the spectrum of possibility for appropriate responses to various environmental challenges.
KEYWORDS : climate change, media, discourse, framing, representations, anthropogenic
SERIAL : 46985
PAGES : 339-350
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
COUNT : 1
Entered by : Maxwell Boykoff