Mediating Environmental Change

As Friday approaches we are really looking forward to seeing you all here in Bournemouth for the Mediating Environmental Change symposium. Details about socialising on Thursday and Friday evenings: For those of you who would like to, the conference organising team (Einar and Jenny) propose that we go for a drink (and an optional bite [...]

Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring The Way Forward will be covered live across a range of digital platforms this Friday. You can track the coverage by following @ClimateConf on Twitter, or getting involved with the wider debate by using the hash tag #mec2011. A feed of the tweets mentioning #mec2011 can also be found on the [...]

Why Media Matter: The Democratic Handling of Complex Environmental Issues Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University, Sweden Environmental problems pose great challenges for late-modern societies. Broad involvement in decision-making processes and public participation are seen as ways to handle uncertainty and to create legitimacy for the decisions that need to be made. The (mass) media play [...]

The Media is the Message Dan Glass, Plane Stupid Plane Stupid is often known for high-profile dare-devil media-orientated actions. But take a peek behind the scenes of the drama and you will meet hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have been building a movement based on creative media to tackle the daily reality of [...]

Advertising isThe New York Times and the “Beleaguered People of Louisiana”: Communicating the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill as a Social Disaster Mat Hope, University of Bristol This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of the New York Times’ reporting of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April, 2010. Applying a model of [...]

Researching the Public Pedagogy of Environmental and Conservation Media John Blewitt, Aston University This paper will explore the methodological implications of researching the public pedagogy of environmental and conservation media through interrogating the validity and applicability of the concept ‘public pedagogy’, the relevance of methodological approaches derived from media ecology in fashioning conservation awareness and [...]

We look forward to welcoming you all in Bournemouth on 4th March! For your convenience, please see below some information of particular relevance to those presenting. The event is scheduled to run from 09:00 – 18:15, and the programme is now available. Your paper should be 12-15 minutes. Please respect the other speakers by ensuring your [...]

We have revised the programme for the MEC2011 symposium on 4th March, which is presented below with accompanying schedule. Registration 09:00 – 09:30 Tea and coffee will be served Welcome Address 09:30 – 09:45 Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University Global Issues / Local Contexts 09:45 – 11:05 Panel Abstracts ~ Chair: Julie Doyle, University of Brighton Why [...]

Professor Adrian Newton is an internationally recognised academic who cares passionately about protecting the environment. With a PhD from University of Cambridge, Adrian spent time at University of Edinburgh and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) before moving to BU. He is a member of the British Ecological Society and a Fellow of the Royal [...]

Dan Glass from direct action network Plane Stupid was recently named one of Attitude magazine’s 66 new role models for his work on bridging the LGBTQ and environmental justice movements. Dan has been involved in a range of actions, stunts, media campaigns, legal trials (Climate9) and direct interventions to stop emissions. Having a strong media [...]