Environmental protest, politics and media interactions: An overview

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Forde, S
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Hackett, Robert A

Forde, Susan

Gunster, Shane

Foxwell-Norton, Kerrie

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2017
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This chapter considers environmental protest and opposition in its diversity and, in doing so, considers the different roles that the media may fulfill in covering environmental conflict and in representing climate crisis. It provides an overview of the interactions between the environmental protest movement and the media. The chapter summarizes some historical features of the environmental movement's interactions with the media, to suggest what this tells us about the media's role in presenting the environmental movement to the public, and to therefore point to successes and failures which might guide future strategies. It also summarizes the relationship among environmental protest, the media and politics, theorizations around journalistic paradigms for climate crisis reporting. The chapter describes the role of alternative and environmental media outlets covering these issues as falling within the 'radical' role of the media, the function of broader, dominant media rejects such overt mobilization of audiences that the radical role requires.

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Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives

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Forde, S, Environmental protest, politics and media interactions: An overview, Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives, 2017, pp. 77-93

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