{"product_id":"environmental-risks-and-the-media-0415214475","title":"Environmental Risks and the Media","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0415214475\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Adam, Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvironmental Risks and the Media 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. Examining 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":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862756426016,"sku":"NEW0415214475","price":40.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71yvmLIzRRL.jpg?v=1781635110","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/environmental-risks-and-the-media-0415214475","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}