Environmental Risks and Media

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk......Page 18
Mapping environmental risks......Page 44
TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks......Page 46
Interest group strategies and journalistic norms: news media framing of environmental issues......Page 62
Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the \'Brent Spar\' controversy......Page 72
The burrowers: news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas......Page 90
Denaturalising risk politics......Page 108
Environmental pressure politics and the \'risk society\'......Page 110
\'Industry causes lung cancer\': would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics......Page 122
The media timescapes of BSE news......Page 134
Reporting risks: problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project......Page 147
Bodies, risks and public environments......Page 160
Selling control: ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure......Page 162
Exclusionary environments: the media career of youth homelessness......Page 177
The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments......Page 188
\'Landscapes of fear\': public places, fear of crime and the media......Page 201
Globalising environments at risk......Page 216
Communicating climate change through the media: predictions, politics and perceptions of risk......Page 218
Global citizenship, the environment and the media......Page 235
Mediating the risks of virtual environments......Page 246
Bibliography......Page 258
Index......Page 282