Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-137-53468-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local community to broader political, social and economic contexts. The book shows how green lifestyle media negotiate issues of sustainability in varying ways, reproducing the logic of existing consumer society while also sometimes providing projections of a more environmentally friendly existence. In this way, the book argues that everyday lifestyles are not an irredeemable problem for environmentalism but an important site of environmental politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – Evaluating Sustainable Everyday Life.-Chapter 2 – Environmental Lifestyle Media.-Chapter 3 – Green Living in Newspapers.-Chapter 4 – Advertising Sustainability.-Chapter 5 – Eco-Reality Television.-Chapter 6 – Celebrities and Environmental Activism.-Chapter 7 – Local Sustainability Groups and Social Media.-Chapter 8 - Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Craig teaches in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author of Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences (2016) and The Media, Politics and Public Life (2004), and the co-author of Slow Living (2006).