Description
Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives recognizes that climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is also a question of political and communicative capacity.
This book enquires into which approaches to journalism, as a particularly important form of public communication, can best enable humanity to productively address climate crisis. The book combines selective overviews of previous research, normative enquiry (what should journalism be doing?) and original empirical case studies of environmental communication and media coverage in Australia and Canada. Bringing together perspectives from the fields of environmental communication and journalism studies, the authors argue for forms of journalism that can encourage public engagement and mobilization to challenge the powerful interests vested in a high-carbon economy – ‘facilitative’ and ‘radical’ roles particularly well-suited to alternative media and alternative journalism. Ultimately, the book argues for a fundamental rethinking of relationships between journalism, publics, democracy and climate crisis.
This book will interest researchers, students and activists in environmental politics, social movements and the media.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: JOURNALISM FOR CLIMATE CRISIS
Robert A. Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
1 DEMOCRACY, CLIMATE CRISIS AND JOURNALISM: NORMATIVE TOUCHSTONES
Robert A. Hackett
2 ENGAGING CLIMATE COMMUNICATION: AUDIENCES, FRAMES, VALUES AND NORMS
Shane Gunster
3 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST, POLITICS AND MEDIA INTERACTIONS: AN OVERVIEW
Susan Forde
4 FROM FRAMES TO PARADIGMS: CIVIC JOURNALISM, PEACE JOURNALISM AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
Robert A. Hackett
5 CONTESTING CONFLICT? EFFICACY, ADVOCACY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Shane Gunster
6 AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT NEWS MEDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING: THE CASE OF COP21
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
7 ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENT COVERAGE IN THE DIGITAL ERA: THE GUARDIAN’S ‘KEEP IT IN THE GROUND’ CAMPAIGN
Susan Forde
CONCLUSION: MEDIA REFORM FOR CLIMATE ACTION
Robert A. Hackett
