Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media

Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76665-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication.

 

Arguing that science must be understood from an inclusive perspective, respecting public values and concerns alongside scientific arguments, the authors demonstrate how this will allow us to properly understand the role of science, truth, and factuality alongside the ethical, cultural, and political concerns about science raised in different publics. The chapters focus on the more controversial aspects of science and environmental communication: misinformation, public understandings of science and the environmental crises, vaccination, and the role of the hybrid mediascape in science, environment, and climate conflicts.

 

Offering a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of science of media in science and environment conflicts, this book will appeal to students and academics in the areas of media and communication, journalism, cultural studies, science, environment and risk communication, and digital media studies, as well as sociology and political science.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rantasila, Anna

Roslyng, Mette Marie

Jonsson, Anna Maria

Jönsson, Anna Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 

1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communication

 

Part I: Environmental and climate truths in media

2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic pollutants in Sweden

3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram

4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming

5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledge

 

Part 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge

6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of conspiracy discourse

7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates

8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Part 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust

9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust

10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster

11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views

12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism

13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mette Marie Roslyng is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on how discourses of science, technology, and the environment are represented, contested and politicised in the media and in public debates.

Anna Rantasila is a Lecturer of Communication Studies at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She’s also a member of the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab at LUT. Her current work focuses on affect and emotion in various online environments, particularly in the context of news, disinformation and popular culture.

Anna Maria Jönsson is a Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has extensive experience of research about journalism and climate change, science communication and public engagement.