Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media

This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies. It will appeal to media, communication, journalism, cultural studies, science, environment, risk communication, digital media, sociology, political science.

Autorentext

Mette Marie Roslyng is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on how discourses of science, technology, and the environment are represented, contested, and politicised in the media and in public debates.

Anna Rantasila is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She's also a member of the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab at LUT. Her current work focuses on affect and emotion in various online environments, particularly in the context of news, disinformation, and popular culture.

Anna Maria Jönsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has extensive experience of research about journalism and climate change, science communication, and public engagement.

Inhalt

Preface

1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communication

Part I: Environmental and climate truths in media

2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic pollutants in Sweden

3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram

4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming

5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledge

Part 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge

6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of conspiracy discourse

7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates

8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemic

Part 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust

9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust

10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster

11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views

12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism

13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?

Index