HOW TO EFFECTIVELY REPRESENT CLIMATE CHANGE IN A 21ST CENTURY MULTI-MEDIA WORLD

ENVS 4100/STPR 4100
University of Colorado

Table of Contents

1. Science and environmental online video
1.1. Popularity
1.2. Typology
1.3. Scientific rigor
1.4. Audience perception

2. New journalistic formats
2.1. New trends in TV news on climate change
2.2. Proximity journalism
2.3. Reaching out to the audience’s interests
2.4. The impact of infotainment
2.5. Transmedia information
2.6. Participative journalism
2.7. Immersive journalism and smartphone journalism
2.8. Slow journalism and data journalism
2.9. Simplification of scientific content]

3. New documentary formats
3.1. New coordinates for a genre
3.2. Hybridization
3.3. The power of stories and fiction
3.3. Participative formats
3.4. Animation and new production tools
3.5. Slow TV
3.6. Video Blogs
3.7. Webdocs and interactivity