The environment in the age of the Internet activists, communication, and the digital landscape
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1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) : color illustrations - Publisher: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction / Heike Graf -- Resonance in News Media -- About this Volume -- References -- 2. The Environment in Disguise: Insurgency and Digital Media in the Southern Cone / Virginia Meliâan -- Background -- Digital Media and Protest -- The Study -- Camouflaged Arguments -- User Generated Content and Mainstream Media -- Networking beyond the Digital -- Mobile Personal Engagement -- Opportunities for Public Debate -- Civic Engagement and Media Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Exploitation or Preservation? Your Choice! Digital Modes of Expressing Perceptions of Nature and the Land / Coppâelie Cocq -- Mining Boom, Land Rights, and Perceptions of the Environment -- YouTube: A Channel for Environmental Activism -- Contesting Narratives -- Media Logic -- Polarisation or Zone of Contact -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Natural Ecology Meets Media Ecology: Indigenous Climate Change Activists' Views on Nature and Media / Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg -- Introduction -- Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- Defining Media Ecology -- Method and Material -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- 5. The Culture of Nature: The Environmental Communication of Gardening Bloggers / Heike Graf -- Garden Blogs -- Environmental Communication from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective -- Difference-Theoretical Approach -- The Role of Topics Ecology and Gardening in the Mainstream Media -- The Topics of Gardening Blogs -- Consumption: Developing/Refusing a 'Buyosphere' -- Production: Developing Green Gardening -- Conclusions -- References -- 6. The Militant Media of Neo-Nazi Environmentalism -- Madeleine Hurd and Steffen Werther -- NPD Media: Party Websites -- Emotions -- The NPD and the Environment -- The Neo-Nazi World of Umwelt & Aktiv -- Nature-Oriented Action: A Cure for National Ills -- Women, Youth, and Germanic Nature: From Umwelt to Aktion -- References -- Index. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resources; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website, viewed on April 9, 2020). |
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