Image Politics of Climate Change : : Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations / / ed. by Thomas Nocke, Birgit Schneider.

Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive vis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts and Architecture 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Image ; 55
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Epistemic Value of Visualization in Climate Sciences
  • The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes
  • Chapter 2. Communicating Results: The Status of Climate Expert Graphs in IPCC Reports
  • “Tricks,” Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character
  • The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC’s ‘Burning Embers’
  • Chapter 3. Images of Climate Change in the Press and on the Web
  • Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009
  • Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media
  • Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges
  • Color Plates
  • Chapter 4. From Vision to Action? Making the Invisible Imaginable through Art and Photography
  • Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication
  • The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone
  • How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change
  • The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non–Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action?
  • Chapter 5. Images of Climate Control
  • Picturing the State of the Nation’s Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s
  • Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable
  • Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering
  • Contributing Authors