Annotation Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental isseues. Abstract: Annotation Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental isseues Considers The Tension Between Entertainment And Information In Media Coverage Of Environmental Issues. Foreword / Ulrich Beck -- Introduction : The Media Politics Of Environmental Risk / Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam And Cynthia Carter -- Tv News, Lay Voices And The Visualisation Of Environmental Risks / Simon Cottle -- Interest Group Strategies And Journalistic Norms : News Media Framing Of Environmental Issues / M. Mark Miller And Bonnie Parnell Riechert -- Claims-making And Framing In British Newspaper Coverage Of The 'brent Spar' Controversy / Anders Hansen -- The Burrowers : News About Bodies, Tunnels And Green Guerrillas / Maggie Wykes -- Environmental Pressure Politics And The 'risk Society' / Alison Anderson -- 'industry Causes Lung Cancer' : Would You Be Happy With That Headline? Environmental Health And Local Politics / Peter Phillimore And Suzanne Moffatt -- The Media Timescapes Of Bse News / Barbara Adam -- Reporting Risks : Problematising Public Participation And The Human Genome Project / Peter Glasner -- Selling Control : Ideological Dilemmas Of Sun, Tanning, Risk And Leisure / Justine Coupland And Nikolas Coupland -- Exclusionary Environments : The Media Career Of Youth Homelessness / Susan Hutson And Mark Liddiard -- The Female Body At Risk : Media, Sexual Violence And The Gendering Of Public Environments / C. Kay Weaver, Cynthia Carter And Elizabeth Stanko -- 'landscapes Of Fear' : Public Places, Fear Of Crime And The Media / John Tulloch -- Communicating Climate Change Through The Media : Predictions, Politics And Perceptions Of Risk / Kris M. Wilson -- Global Citizenship, The Environment And The Media / Bronislaw Szerszynski And Mark Toogood -- Mediating The Risks Of Virtual Environments / Joost Van Loon. Edited By Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam And Cynthia Carter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [241]-264) And Index. Environmental 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? The world of television news enacts tight editorial controls, controls that do not normally permit generous conditions of access to ordinary or lay voices and viewpoints.
