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Title Environmental risks and the media / edited by Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
Contents Foreword / Ulrich Beck -- Introduction : the media politics of environmental risk / Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter -- TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks / Simon Cottle -- Interest group strategies and journalistic norms : news media framing of environmental issues / M. Mark Miller and Bonnie Parnell Riechert -- Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy / Anders Hansen -- The burrowers : news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas / Maggie Wykes -- Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' / Alison Anderson -- 'Industry causes lung cancer' : would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics / Peter Phillimore and Suzanne Moffatt -- The media timescapes of BSE news / Barbara Adam -- Reporting risks : problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project / Peter Glasner -- Selling control : ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure / Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland -- Exclusionary environments : the media career of youth homelessness / Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard -- The female body at risk : media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments / C. Kay Weaver, Cynthia Carter and Elizabeth Stanko -- 'Landscapes of fear' : public places, fear of crime and the media / John Tulloch -- Communicating climate change through the media : predictions, politics and perceptions of risk / Kris M. Wilson -- Global citizenship, the environment and the media / Bronislaw Szerszynski and Mark Toogood -- Mediating the risks of virtual environments / Joost van Loon.
Summary Annotation Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental isseues.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Mass media and the environment.
Mass media and the environment.
Environmental health -- Press coverage.
Environmental health -- Press coverage.
Environmental health.
Environmental protection -- Press coverage.
Environmental protection -- Press coverage.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Allan, Stuart, 1962-
Adam, Barbara, 1945-
Carter, Cynthia, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Environmental risks and the media. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 99087826
ISBN 9780203164990 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0203164997 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780415214469 (alkaline paper)
0415214467 (alkaline paper)
9780415214476 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0415214475 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0585460213 (electronic book)
9780585460215 (electronic book)
0203164997
0415214467 (alkaline paper)
0415214475 (paperback ; alkaline paper)