Environmental Media

The mainstream media and communication technologies have popularized the environmental theme and massified the term sustainable development in the most different types of social spaces. However, the environmental issue seems to be far from being consequently questioned; it is usually presented as a spectacle, with sensationalist and catastrophist abhorrences, fragmented in its relations and lacking in the social aspect. However, the growth in the number of audiovisual messages that address specific environmental issues, as well as the discursive mobilization promoted with the dissemination of socio-environmental problems in general, may be an indication of the possibility of a new man/nature relationship, where the environmental issue is addressed in its complexity. It is a systematic review of the literature on the theme in a more global analysis, establishing a relation with the author's media research experience in his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Communication.

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Paulo Roberto Ramos è dottore di ricerca in Sociologia dello sviluppo e ricercatore di questioni ambientali e mediatiche. Coordinatore del programma Green School, ha sviluppato progetti di ricerca e di estensione relativi all'educazione ambientale nelle scuole, nelle università e nelle comunità del Nordest del Brasile.