The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape - cover image

Copyright

Heike Graf

Published On

2016-07-18

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-243-1
Hardback978-1-78374-244-8
PDF978-1-78374-245-5
HTML978-1-80064-515-8
XML978-1-78374-629-3
EPUB978-1-78374-246-2
MOBI978-1-78374-247-9

Language

  • English

Print Length

192 pages (xiv + 178)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 10 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.41" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 13 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.5" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback619g (21.83oz)
Hardback996g (35.13oz)

Media

Illustrations16

OCLC Number

953734585

LCCN

2019452722

BIC

  • RN
  • JFD
  • UD

BISAC

  • NAT010000
  • COM079000
  • SOC000000

LCC

  • P96.E57

Keywords

  • Environment
  • Internet
  • ecology
  • communication
  • media studies
  • blogs
  • ecological activism

The Environment in the Age of the Internet

Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape

  • Heike Graf (editor)
How do we talk about the environment? Does this communication reveal and construct meaning? Is the environment expressed and foregrounded in the new landscape of digital media?

The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of "the environment". This book draws on case studies from around the world and focuses on activists of radically different kinds: protestors against pulp mills in South America, resistance to mining in the Sámi region of Sweden, the struggles of indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon, gardening bloggers in northern Europe, and neo-Nazi environmentalists in Germany. Each case is examined in relation to its multifaceted media coverage, mainstream and digital, professional and amateur.

Stories are told within a context; examining the "what" and "how" of these environmental stories demonstrates how contexts determine communication, and how communication raises and shapes awareness. These issues have never been more urgent, this work never more timely. The Environment in the Age of the Internet is essential reading for everyone interested in how humans relate to their environment in the digital age.

Contributors

Heike Graf

(editor)
Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University