The environment in the age of the Internet : : activists, communication, and the digital landscape /

The environment in the age of the Internet : : activists, communication, and the digital landscape / / edited by Heike Graf.

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"How do we talk about the environment? Does this communication reveal and construct meaning? Is the environment expressed and foregrounded in the new landscape of digital media? The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answer...

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Heike Graf
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Graf, Heike,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) :; illustrations (colour); digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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