Environmental Literacy and New Digital Audiences

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66388-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media

Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs. Rather, it is one that incorporates and facilitates a dialogue with audiences of different persuasions and at all levels of engagement, to help highlight and co-produce consensual solutions to the major eco-challenges of our time.

Exploring the growing power and influence of media formats and outlets like YouTube and gaming, alongside fictional and documentary film, this book considers new modes of environmental literacy to ascertain the effectiveness of digital and filmic stimuli on an audience’s perception of environmental issues, and its specific impact on environmental action. Drawing on extensive research across a broad range of media formats, Brereton establishes how environmental narratives and meanings are created and being received by contemporary audiences.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental communication and media, eco-criticism and environmental humanities more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brereton, Pat

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1 Environmental Literacy Introduction

2 Understanding Audience Psychology and Trigger Points for Promoting Environmental Literacy

3 Promoting New Media Literacy

4 Food Documentaries and Green Anxieties: Actively promoting Environmental Literacy

5 Eco-Documentaries: Old Problems New Aesthetic Opportunities

6 Contemporary Hollywood Blockbusters and Environmental Narratives

7 An Environmental Reading of Post 9/11 American Televisual Series

8 Netflix and Emerging Streaming Networks: New Forms of Immersive and Addictive Narratives and Characterisation

9 Video Games and Environmental Learning: New Modes of Audience Engagement

10 Going Viral: YouTube and New Forms of Environmental Literacy

11 Conclusion: Constructing an Environmental Literacy Consensus through New Media

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pat Brereton is a Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, and has taught and published extensively around environmental communications and all forms of new media.