{"product_id":"environmental-risks-and-the-media-9780415214469","title":"Environmental Risks and the Media","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barbara Adam | Stuart Allan | Cynthia Carter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnvironmental Risks and the Media\u003c\/em\u003e explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly contested, the medias methods of encouraging audiences to think about environmental risks - from the BSE or 'mad cow' crisis to global climate change - are becoming more and more controversial.\u003cbr\u003eExamining large-scale disasters, as well as 'everyday' hazards, the contributors consider the tensions between entertainment and information in media coverage of the environment. How do the media frame 'expert', 'counter-expert' and 'lay public' definitions of environmental risk? What role do environmental pressure groups like Greenpeace or 'eco-warriors' and 'green guerrillas' play in shaping what gets covered and how? Does the media emphasis on spectacular events at the expense of issue-sensitive reporting exacerbate the public tendency to overestimate sudden and violent risks and underestimate chronic long-term ones?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48226316976279,"sku":"9780415214469","price":24255.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415214469.webp?v=1788770278","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/environmental-risks-and-the-media-9780415214469","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}