Media, Culture and the Environment

Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1(1) Environmental issues 1(2) Ecology and social theory 3(2) Environmentalism and the news media 5(3) Cultural, spatial and temporal contexts 8(5) Social constructionism 13(2) Structure of the book 15(1) Further reading 15(2) Pressure politics and the news media 17(28) Introduction 17(1) Media theory 18(5) Conceptualizing the role of the media 23(6) Public arenas and issue entrepreneurs 29(9) Source strategies 38(6) Summary 44(1) Suggested further reading 44(1) News production 45(30) Introduction 45(1) News production perspectives 46(8) Biases and constraints 54(17) Summary 71(2) Suggested further reading 73(2) The environmental lobby 75(32) Introduction 75(2) Defining social movements 77(2) Two competing traditions 79(1) The rise of the green movement in Western Europe and and the USA 79(8) A new politics? 87(3) Evidence for the rise of a broad-based environmental movement 90(5) Explanations for the rise of environmentalism 95(9) Summary 104(1) Suggested further reading 105(2) News and the social construction of the environment 107(30) Introduction 107(1) Risk and the environment as a social construct 108(6) Media framing of risk and the environment 114(3) Explanations of story selection 117(17) Summary 134(1) Suggested further reading 135(2) Contested ground: news sources and the media 137(34) Introduction 137(1) A convergence of approaches 137(3) The background 140(2) The agenda-setting role of the popular press 142(5) The seals story as an issue threshold for environmental awareness 147(14) The agenda-building role of sources 161(5) Summary 166(2) Suggested further reading 168(3) Mediating the environment 171(32) Introduction 171(1) Live Aid 172(2) Media practitioners' views of the audience 174(3) Public opinion and news media representations of environmental issues 177(13) Texts and readers 190(2) Circuit of communication 192(3) Competing discourses about nuclear power 195(4) Environmental education and cultural values 199(2) Summary 201(1) Suggested further reading 202(1) Conclusion 203(10) References 213(18) Index 231