Description - The Mass Media and Environmental Issues by Anders Hansen
These essays provide a synthesis of current thinking and research on the mass media in the rise of the environment as a social and political issue. It examines the strengths of communications research in the analysis of social problems and the advances made in research on environmental issues and the mass media. How far have the mass media contributed to the rise of the environment on the political agenda? What is the nature of communication processes in relation to environmental disasters and emergencies? How far is mass media coverage of the environment structured by the economic context of the media, by the professional norms and practices of journalists, by news values, and by the strategies of information management adopted by the key actors on the environmental stage? Who defines what environmental issues are about? How do mediated images contribute to the formation of public opinion? In what ways do different publics draw on the media representations for making sense of environmental issues?
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