Rust / Monani / Cubitt Ecomedia

Key Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-67057-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment.

Each chapter introduces a distinct type of media, addressing it in a theoretical overview before engaging with specific case studies. In this way, the book provides an accessible introduction to each form of media as well as a sophisticated analysis of relevant cases. The book includes contributions from a combination of new voices and well-established media scholars from across the globe who examine the basic concepts and key issues of ecomedia studies. The concepts of "frames," "flow", and "convergence" structure a dynamic collection divided into three parts. The first part addresses traditional visual texts, such as comics, photography, and film. The second part of the book addresses traditional broadcast media, such as radio, and television, and the third part looks at new media, such as advertising, video games, the internet, and digital renderings of scientific data.

In its breadth and scope, Ecomedia: Key Issues presents a unique survey of rich scholarship at the confluence of Media Studies and Environmental Studies. The book is written in an engaging and accessible style, with each chapter including case studies, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rust, Stephen

Monani, Salma

Cubitt, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Toby Miller Introduction: Ecologies of Media Stephen Rust, Salma Monani and Sean Cubitt Part 1: Frames 1. Overview: Framing Visual Texts for Ecomedia Studies Carter Soles and Kui-Wai Chu 2. Beyond Nature Photography: The Possibilities and Responsibilities of Seeing Lewis H. Ulman 3. Eco-nostalgia in Popular Turkish Cinema Ekin Gündüz Özdemirci and Salma Monani 4. The Aesthetics of Environmental Equity in American Newspaper Strips Veronica Vold Part 2: Flow 5. Overview: Flow--An Ecocritical Perspective on Broadcast Media Stephen Rust 6. "I Took Off My Pants And Felt Free": The Subject of Environmentalism in Countercultural Radio Sean Cubitt 7. Hostile or Hospitable: New Zealand Television Maps Degrees of Belonging Sarina Pearson 8. Earth Observation and Signal Territories: U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure, Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork Lisa Parks Part 3: Convergence 9. Overview: Bert Versus the Black Phoenix: An Introduction to Convergence and Ecomedia Anthony Lioi 10. Selling With Gaia: Advertising and the Natural World Joseph Clark 11. Where the Wild Games Are: Ecologies in Latin American Video Games Lauren Woolbright and Thaiane Oliveira 12. New Media, Environmental NGOs and Online-Based Collective Actions in China Aimei Yang 13. Earth Imaging: Photograph, Pixel, Program Chris Russill

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Rust is Adjunct Professor at the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and the Department of English at University of Oregon, USA.

Salma Monani is Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at Gettysburg College, USA.

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee, Scotland.