Mediating Environmental Change

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 [...]

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 [...]

James Painter is currently head of the Journalism Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Before that, he worked for several years at the BBC World Service in various capacities including Americas Executive editor, head of the Spanish American Service and head of the BBC Miami office. James [...]

Rupert Read is Reader in Philosophy at UEA (Norwich), where he works closely with environmental scientists, in eco-philosophy. His publications include his popular book, ‘Philosophy for Life: applying philosophy in politics and culture’. Rupert is also a Green Party Councillor, and helped write the Green 2009 Euro-election manifesto. He blogs on environmental reframing at greenwordsworkshop.org [...]