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Culture, Politics and Climate Change
ENVS 4800

Week 4
(September 13 & 15)

COMPONENT II: MASS MEDIA – who speaks for the climate?

Tuesday, September 13

Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, Chapter 7 ‘The communication of risk’, 211-247.

Anderson, A. (2009) Media, politics and climate change: towards a new research agenda, Sociology Compass 3(2), 166-182.

Boykoff, M. (2011) Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Coverage of Climate Change, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, Chapter 2 ‘Roots and culture: exploring media coverage of climate change through history’, 30-52.

Cox, R. (2010) Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, Chapter 5 ‘Media and the environment online’, 151-188.

 

Thursday, September 15

  • activity #1 ‘The Climate Reality Project’ monitoring
  • co-facilitation #3

Boykoff, M. (2008) The Real Swindle. Nature Reports Climate Change 2 (2) 31-32, doi: 10.1038/climate.2008.14

Boykoff, M.T. (2008) The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids. Polit. Geogr. 27 (5) 549-569, Times Cited: 3, issn: 0962-6298, ids: 349JQ, doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.05.002, Published JUN 2008.

Boykoff, M.T., J.M. Boykoff (2007) Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage. Geoforum 38 (6) 1190-1204, Times Cited: 8, issn: 0016-7185, ids: 230EN, doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.01.008, Published November 2007.

Cox, R. (2010) Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, Chapter 6 ‘Risk communication: environmental dangers and the public’, 189-221.