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Article: Environmental Risks and the Media.
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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STUART ALLAN, BARBARA ADAM and CYNTHIA CARTER (eds.), Environmental Risks and the Media. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, xiv + 278 p.
The professed main objective of this edited volume is to explore the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by an established human cultural means--the media. Two societal aspects are relevant to understanding the context of the volume. First, at present, common conceptions of a stable environment with which humanity interferes are being increasingly challenged in various societal forums. Second, the media's goals and methods of instigating audiences to develop ...