Participatory Media in Environmental Communication

Engaging Communities in the Periphery
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-65528-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media

Participatory Media in Environmental Communication brings together stories of communities in the Pacific islands – a region that is severely affected by the impacts of climate change. Despite living on the margins of the digital revolution, these island communities have used media and communication to create awareness of and find solutions to environmental challenges. By telling their stories in their own way, ordinary people are able to communicate compelling accounts of how different, but interrelated, environmental, political, and economic issues converge and impact at a local level.

This book fills a significant gap in our understanding of how participatory media is used as a dialogic tool to raise awareness and facilitate discussion of environmental issues that are now critical. It includes a section on pedagogy and practice – the undergirding principles, the tools, the methods. The book offers a framework for Participatory Environmental Communication that weaves three widely used concepts, diversity, network and agency, into a cohesive underlying system to bring scholars, practitioners and diverse communities together in a dialogue about pressing environmental issues.

This book is a valuable resource for researchers and students in communication and media studies, environmental communication, cultural studies, and environmental sciences, as well as practitioners, policy makers and environmental activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Usha Sundar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

PART I Theory in Practice

Chapter 1: Who is Telling our Stories?

Chapter 2: Participatory Environmental Communication: A Conceptual Framework

Chapter 3: Participatory Media – Pedagogy and Practice

Part II Bringing Pacific Island Perspectives

Chapter 4: Dialogic Encounters: Listening to People’s Stories

Chapter 5: Engaging Communities in Environmental Communication

Chapter 6: Community Informatics and the Power of Participation

Chapter 7: Who is Listening?

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Usha Sundar Harris is an academic in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia.