The Third Edition of Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere by Robert Cox remains the only comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This innovative book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. It also examines how we define environmental “problems” and decide what actions to take with regards to the natural world.
Borrowing from psychologist James Jerome Gibson's (1986) classic The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, therefore, this chapter will describe which affordances are enabled by various media and which are not.
Kinsella, W. J., & J. Mullen. (2008). Becoming Hanford downwinders: Producing community and challenging discursive containment. In B. C. Taylor, W. J. Kinsella, S. P. Depoe, & M. S. Metzler (Eds.), Nuclear legacies: Communication, ...
The Fifth Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the first comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication.
The guiding questions for this collection of articles are therefore: Who has access to the public sphere? How is this access enabled or disabled? Under what conditions is it granted or withheld, and by whom?
This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for theory, research and practice with regard to environment and communication, and it does this from a perspective which is both international and multi-disciplinary in ...
In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as ...
A broader and more comprehensive understanding of how we communicate with each other about the natural world and our relationship to it is essential to solving environmental problems. How do...
Baudrillard, Jean (1968 [2002]) 'Credit', in Tony Bennett and Diane Watson (eds) Understanding Everyday Life, Oxford: The Open University and Blackwell Publishing, pp. 175–177. Bausch, Kenneth C. (2001) The Emerging Consensus in Social ...
Offering insightful case studies to illustrate this new theory of the global public sphere, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication studies , and social and political theory.
This book is an essential resource for students of media and communications across sociology, cultural studies, creative industries and of course, media and communications courses.