The environment in the age of the Internet : activists, communication, and the digital landscape /: activists, communication, and the digital landscape. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heike Graf.
• Editors: Graf, Heike
• 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 Melián -- 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 / Coppélie 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&#x; 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 &#x;Buyosphere&#x; -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, UK : OpenBook Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 302.23; Mass media and the environment; Green movement -- In mass media; Environmentalism in mass media; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783742455; 1783742453
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: PDF (JSTOR, viewed July 19, 2016).
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