This book is based upon a critical examination of the news-making literature, and my own research conducted with claims-makers and reporters covering environmental affairs from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.
This book is based upon a critical examination of the news-making literature, and my own research conducted with claims-makers and reporters covering environmental affairs from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.
Alison Anderson lived in Greece, France, England, and Switzerland before moving to San Francisco, where she now works as a writer and translator. She is the author of Hidden Latitudes (1996), a novel of Amelia Earhart based on Anderson's yearlong sailing trip on a 30-foot ketch, which was nominated for the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Book of the Year and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Environmental issues Ecology and social theory Environmentalism and the news media Cultural, spatial and temporal contexts Social constructionism Structure of the book Further reading 1. Pressure politics and the news media Introduction Media theory Conceptualizing the role of the media Public arenas and issue entrepreneurs Source strategies Summary Suggested furter reading 2. News production Introduction News production perspectives Biases and constraints Summary Suggested further reading 3. The environmental lobby Introduction Defining social movements Two competing traditions The rise of the green movement in Western Europe and the USA A new politics? Evidence for the rise of a broad-based environmental movement Explanations for the rise of environmentalism Summary Suggested further reading 4. News and the social construction of the environment Introduction Risk and the environment as a social construct Media framing of risk and the environment Explanations of story selection Summary Suggested further reading 5. Contested ground: news sources and the media Introduction A convergence of approaches The background The agenda-setting role of the popular press The seals story as an issue threshold for environmental awareness The agenda-building role of sources Summary Suggested further reading 6. Mediating the environment Introduction Live Aid Media practitioners' views of the audience Public opinion and news media representations of environmental issues Texts and readers Circuit of communication Competing discourses about nuclear power Environmental education and cultural values Summary Suggested further reading Conclusion References Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Environmental issues Ecology and social theory Environmentalism and the news media Cultural, spatial and temporal contexts Social constructionism Structure of the book Further reading 1. Pressure politics and the news media Introduction Media theory Conceptualizing the role of the media Public arenas and issue entrepreneurs Source strategies Summary Suggested furter reading 2. News production Introduction News production perspectives Biases and constraints Summary Suggested further reading 3. The environmental lobby Introduction Defining social movements Two competing traditions The rise of the green movement in Western Europe and the USA A new politics? Evidence for the rise of a broad-based environmental movement Explanations for the rise of environmentalism Summary Suggested further reading 4. News and the social construction of the environment Introduction Risk and the environment as a social construct Media framing of risk and the environment Explanations of story selection Summary Suggested further reading 5. Contested ground: news sources and the media Introduction A convergence of approaches The background The agenda-setting role of the popular press The seals story as an issue threshold for environmental awareness The agenda-building role of sources Summary Suggested further reading 6. Mediating the environment Introduction Live Aid Media practitioners' views of the audience Public opinion and news media representations of environmental issues Texts and readers Circuit of communication Competing discourses about nuclear power Environmental education and cultural values Summary Suggested further reading Conclusion References Index
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