Foreword
1. Introduction by Heike Graf
Resonance in News Media
About this Volume
References
2. The Environment in Disguise: Insurgency and Digital Media in the Southern Cone by Virginia Melián
Background
Digital Media and Protest
The Study
Camouflaged Arguments
User-Generated Content and Mainstream Media
Networking beyond the Digital
Mobile Personal Engagement
Opportunities for Public Debate
Civic Engagement and Media Practice
Conclusion
References
3. Exploitation or Preservation? Your Choice! Digital Modes of Expressing Perceptions of Nature and the Land by Coppélie Cocq
Mining Boom, Land Rights, and Perceptions of the Environment
YouTube: A Channel for Environmental Activism
Contesting Narratives
Media Logic
Polarisation or Zone of Contact
Conclusions
References
4. Natural Ecology Meets Media Ecology: Indigenous Climate Change Activists’ Views on Nature and Media by Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg
Introduction
Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Defining Media Ecology
Method and Material
Analysis
Conclusions
References
5. The Culture of Nature: The Environmental Communication of Gardening Bloggers by Heike Graf
Garden Blogs
Environmental Communication from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective
Difference-Theoretical Approach
The Role of Topics
Ecology and Gardening in the Mainstream Media
The Topics of Gardening Blogs
Consumption: Developing/Refusing a ‘Buyosphere’
Production: Developing Green Gardening
Conclusions
References
6. The Militant Media of Neo-Nazi Environmentalism by Madeleine Hurd and Steffen Werther
NPD Media: Party Websites
Emotions
The NPD and the Environment
The Neo-Nazi World of Umwelt & Aktiv
Nature-Oriented Action: A Cure for National Ills
Women, Youth, and Germanic Nature: From Umwelt to Aktion
References
Index