Environmental risks and the media / edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk
- Pt. I. Mapping environmental risks
- 1. TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks
- 2. Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues
- 3. Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy
- 4. The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas
- Pt. II. Denaturalising risk politics
- 5. Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society'
- 6. 'Industry causes lung cancer': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics
- 7. The media timescapes of BSE news
- 8. Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project
- Pt. III. Bodies, risks and public environments
- 9. Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure
- 10. Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness
- 11. The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments
- 12. 'Landscapes of fear': public places, fear of crime and the media
- Pt. IV. Globalising environments at risk
- 13. Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk
- 14. Global citizenship, the environment and the media
- 15. Mediating the risks of virtual environments
- Bibliography
- Index.