Alison Anderson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603890 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison Anderson |
| PRENOMES | Alison |
| SOBRENOME | Anderson |
| ASSINATURA | ANDERSON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0483-3053 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 182 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
News organisation(s) and the production of environmental news
This chapter traces the early origins of scholarship on news production and environmental issues and examines how new theoretical models and methodological approaches have emerged as the relationship between news sources and journalists has changed over time and become increasingly blurred. In the digital age of ‘fake news’ and misinformation, the relationship between news sources and journalists covering the environment has become far more compl…
A platform for goodness, not for badness
I’m not an activist!’
For patient communities, digital media have dramatically transformed the options for action. This includes working collectively to change policies in ways that would have been difficult, if at all possible, before the internet. Yet, to date, the impacts of patients’ growing use of digital media on their sense of collective agency have been little explored. Drawing on the findings from an Australian study on patients’ use of digital media to acces…
Déchoukaj
A writer traces how the murder of George Floyd is continuing to arouse people in cities everywhere, including her own mother in Martinique
Feeling less alone online
Digital media offer the chronically ill, especially those who experience related isolation, unparalleled opportunities to connect with others. This article asks, how do these individuals ascribe meaning to and use these media to manage their condition and related isolation? Using the concepts of affordance and emotional community, and drawing on the findings from an Australian study on patients' use of digital media, we examine individuals' ambiv…
Increasing Local Salience of Climate Change
The media play a vital role in framing the narrative on climate change, however little work exists to assess the extent to which local media outlets increase public engagement on climate change through interaction and engagement with local academics. As temperatures rise and concerns mount that we have passed the tipping point, local media play a potentially critical role in communicating how climate change exacerbates their impact. Based on a re…
The shifting politics of patient activism
Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease- and condition-specific communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised the value of collective action for advancing their interests, digital media offer activists unparalleled opportunities to fulfil their goals. This article explores the shifting politics of 'activism' in the increasingly digitally mediated, commercialised context of …
Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature
WORLDLIT.ORG 61 I n 1997 I was offered a job to teach English to adults in Croatia. Of course I had been following the events that had torn Yugoslavia apart between 1991 and 1995; and just as I was learning what I could about the newly independent country of Croatia, Dubravka had already left it behind, in 1993, to go into exile first in Berlin and then Amsterdam . The irony is that I ordered two of Dubravka’s early books, to learn more about a c…
Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature
WORLDLIT.ORG 61 I n 1997 I was offered a job to teach English to adults in Croatia. Of course I had been following the events that had torn Yugoslavia apart between 1991 and 1995; and just as I was learning what I could about the newly independent country of Croatia, Dubravka had already left it behind, in 1993, to go into exile first in Berlin and then Amsterdam . The irony is that I ordered two of Dubravka’s early books, to learn more about a c…
Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories
Do we need a special issue devoted solely to women writers? Indeed we do. Author and translator Alison Anderson explains why
Reflections on Environmental Communication and the Challenges of a New Research Agenda
Environmental communication has become an increasingly established field of study over the past decade, yet I would have to agree with the convenors of this session that it is still not well organi
Media, Environment and the Network Society
The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Societ
Media, Culture And The Environment
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics
Together we can save the arctic
Economic, institutional and organisational pressures mean that journalists have become increasingly reliant upon pre-packaged information, principally from public-relations professionals, industry and news agencies. Celebrities have become an important currency and particularly so with regard to climate change, since they can help propel the issues into the headlines. As environmental NGOs frequently find themselves at the whim of ever-shifting p…
Telehealthcare in care homes
It is estimated that 20% of unscheduled admissions to hospital with hip fracture are from care homes. However, evidence suggests that admissions can be reduced by increasing levels of proactive care to residents. Our aim was to utilise appropriate telehealthcare equipment to reduce the number of falls in residents. Telecare products are not new but the range of telecare equipment available has been extended and is smarter. Telecare products monit…
Sources, media, and modes of climate change communication
This article reviews existing research on the portrayal of climate change within the print media, paying particular attention to the increasing role that celebrities have come to play within popular culture. While this is certainly not a new development, celebrities are increasingly appearing as key voices within the climate change debate, providing a powerful news hook and potential mobilizing agent. Early coverage of climate change was dominate…
Mediating risk
Framing risk
The concept of ‘framing’ is being increasingly recognised as a useful means of characterising the social relations of representation shaping the news reporting of science and risk. In theoretical terms, framing is often described as a discursive strategy utilised by journalists to define the nature of a particular event, a complex process with important implications for how certain occurrences are selected as newsworthy, the conventions guiding t…
Opening the black box
Increasingly, scientists and policy makers have come to recognize that if nanotechnologies are to achieve wide public acceptance, it is essential to engage publics during the early phase of technology development. The media, situated at the interface between scientists and lay publics, possess the potential to play a significant role in public engagement in this field. This article, drawing on data from a recent survey and interview-based study, …
Media, Politics and Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and the media have been demonstrated to play a key role in shaping public perceptions and policy agendas. Journalists are faced with multiple challenges in covering this complex field. This article provides an overview of existing research on the media framing of climate change, highlighting major research themes and assessing future potential research developments. It argues that ana…
Nanotechnologies, risk and society
Nanotechnologies, like other emergent technologies, have had mixed receptions: heightened expectations of their likely benefits are accompanied with uncertainties and fears about their potential consequences. Scientists and policymakers are acutely aware of the significance of public perceptions for the successful realisation of technologies, which is especially evident in recent policy documents and debates on nanotechnologies. Trust, or rather …
From uncertainty to risk
This article examines how nanotechnology has been portrayed in the British newspaper press over an extended period (from April 1, 2003 to July 1, 2006) and the views of scientists involved in nanotechnology research and journalists who wrote news stories. Two methodological strategies are employed: first, recurring patterns in the press coverage were identified using content analysis. Second, scientists and journalists were questioned about their…
A Question of Balance or Blind Faith
Slick PR? The Media Politics of the Prestige Oil Spill
This article examines the different ways in which Spanish, French, and U.K. newspapers framed the Prestige oil spill. In contrast to earlier large oil spills such as the Torrey Canyon, the Internet had a significant influence upon mainstream news coverage and the coordination of protest activities. The findings suggest that the local Spanish press provided the most sustained coverage, and geographic propinquity to the accident was a good predicto…
Politics, Responsibility and Risk
Media, Culture And The Environment
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics
Media, Politics and Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and the media have been demonstrated to play a key role in shaping public perceptions and policy agendas. Journalists are faced with multiple challenges in covering this complex field. This article provides an overview of existing research on the media framing of climate change, highlighting major research themes and assessing future potential research developments. It argues that ana…
The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press
This article investigates how developments in nanotechnology were framed in the British national newspaper press during a formative period in their rising public salience. Specifically, an intervention by Prince Charles in April 2003 is shown to have acted as the principal catalyst for much of the ensuing newspaper reporting over the next fifteen months. This study, in taking as its focus the operation of specific news frames, identifies a range …
Framing risk
The concept of ‘framing’ is being increasingly recognised as a useful means of characterising the social relations of representation shaping the news reporting of science and risk. In theoretical terms, framing is often described as a discursive strategy utilised by journalists to define the nature of a particular event, a complex process with important implications for how certain occurrences are selected as newsworthy, the conventions guiding t…
Sources, media, and modes of climate change communication
This article reviews existing research on the portrayal of climate change within the print media, paying particular attention to the increasing role that celebrities have come to play within popular culture. While this is certainly not a new development, celebrities are increasingly appearing as key voices within the climate change debate, providing a powerful news hook and potential mobilizing agent. Early coverage of climate change was dominate…
The shifting politics of patient activism
Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease- and condition-specific communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised the value of collective action for advancing their interests, digital media offer activists unparalleled opportunities to fulfil their goals. This article explores the shifting politics of 'activism' in the increasingly digitally mediated, commercialised context of …
Source strategies and the communication of environmental affairs
Feeling less alone online
Digital media offer the chronically ill, especially those who experience related isolation, unparalleled opportunities to connect with others. This article asks, how do these individuals ascribe meaning to and use these media to manage their condition and related isolation? Using the concepts of affordance and emotional community, and drawing on the findings from an Australian study on patients' use of digital media, we examine individuals' ambiv…
Together we can save the arctic
Economic, institutional and organisational pressures mean that journalists have become increasingly reliant upon pre-packaged information, principally from public-relations professionals, industry and news agencies. Celebrities have become an important currency and particularly so with regard to climate change, since they can help propel the issues into the headlines. As environmental NGOs frequently find themselves at the whim of ever-shifting p…
A platform for goodness, not for badness
A Question of Balance or Blind Faith
Spinning the Rural Agenda
This paper investigates the ways in which the UK hunting lobby has historically sought to widen its appeal by wrapping the hunting debate up in broader countryside issues in an attempt to present it as an integral part of rural life. It is based upon a detailed analysis of the re‐branding of the hunting lobby and the subsequent framing of the Countryside Alliance's Liberty and Livelihood March in the British newspaper press in September 2002. Thi…
Slick PR? The Media Politics of the Prestige Oil Spill
This article examines the different ways in which Spanish, French, and U.K. newspapers framed the Prestige oil spill. In contrast to earlier large oil spills such as the Torrey Canyon, the Internet had a significant influence upon mainstream news coverage and the coordination of protest activities. The findings suggest that the local Spanish press provided the most sustained coverage, and geographic propinquity to the accident was a good predicto…
Families, Intimacy and Social Change
Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories
Do we need a special issue devoted solely to women writers? Indeed we do. Author and translator Alison Anderson explains why
Mediating risk
Communication, Conflict and Risk in the 21st Century
The recent war in Iraq has generated much discussion about the role of the news media in representing war. This piece calls for greater sociological intervention into this debate. In particular, it cautions against exaggerating the ideological effects of media propaganda on public attitudes to war. The decision to go to war generated unusually high levels of public opposition. In times of war it is commonplace for policymakers and military person…
Source strategies and the communication of environmental affairs
Media, culture and the environment
In search of the Holy Grail
It has widely been recognized that the media play a key role in framing debates about genetic issues. This paper provides an overview of the major areas of debate within the social scientific literature on media, public understanding of science and human genetics. It evaluates current approaches to assessing the role of the media in influencing public policy debates. It argues that an analysis of the strategies of news sources should occupy a cen…
Communication, Conflict and Risk in the 21st Century
The recent war in Iraq has generated much discussion about the role of the news media in representing war. This piece calls for greater sociological intervention into this debate. In particular, it cautions against exaggerating the ideological effects of media propaganda on public attitudes to war. The decision to go to war generated unusually high levels of public opposition. In times of war it is commonplace for policymakers and military person…
The Changing Consumer
Most studies of consumer behaviour have focused on the decision-making processes involved in the purchasing of goods and services. A change towards a more macro orientation is currently occurring in the field of Consumer Behaviour, a change that is enabling researchers to obtain a greater understanding of both the cognitions and emotions involved in the entire consumption process. Part of this process is the analysis of the symbolic meanings of p…
Science fiction/science fact
News media coverage of biotechnology issues offers a rich source of fictional portrayals, with stories drawing strongly on popular imagery and metaphors in descriptions of the powers and dangers of biotechnology. This article examines how science fiction metaphors, imagery and motifs surface in British newspaper (broadsheet and tabloid) coverage of medical genetic issues, focusing on press reporting of two recent highly publicised news media even…
The Framing of Nanotechnologies in the British Newspaper Press
This article investigates how developments in nanotechnology were framed in the British national newspaper press during a formative period in their rising public salience. Specifically, an intervention by Prince Charles in April 2003 is shown to have acted as the principal catalyst for much of the ensuing newspaper reporting over the next fifteen months. This study, in taking as its focus the operation of specific news frames, identifies a range …
Tourism consumption and representation
This book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism analysis has tended to concentrate on the production of tourist space, and assume that tourism consumption simply mirrors the intentions of the producers. By focusing on a number of relevant sub-themes, such as age, gender, religion and sexual orientation, the chapters within this book critically examine such assumptions i…
Spinning the Rural Agenda
This paper investigates the ways in which the UK hunting lobby has historically sought to widen its appeal by wrapping the hunting debate up in broader countryside issues in an attempt to present it as an integral part of rural life. It is based upon a detailed analysis of the re‐branding of the hunting lobby and the subsequent framing of the Countryside Alliance's Liberty and Livelihood March in the British newspaper press in September 2002. Thi…
Families, Intimacy and Social Change
Nanotechnologies, risk and society
Nanotechnologies, like other emergent technologies, have had mixed receptions: heightened expectations of their likely benefits are accompanied with uncertainties and fears about their potential consequences. Scientists and policymakers are acutely aware of the significance of public perceptions for the successful realisation of technologies, which is especially evident in recent policy documents and debates on nanotechnologies. Trust, or rather …
From uncertainty to risk
This article examines how nanotechnology has been portrayed in the British newspaper press over an extended period (from April 1, 2003 to July 1, 2006) and the views of scientists involved in nanotechnology research and journalists who wrote news stories. Two methodological strategies are employed: first, recurring patterns in the press coverage were identified using content analysis. Second, scientists and journalists were questioned about their…
A Question of Balance or Blind Faith
Slick PR? The Media Politics of the Prestige Oil Spill
This article examines the different ways in which Spanish, French, and U.K. newspapers framed the Prestige oil spill. In contrast to earlier large oil spills such as the Torrey Canyon, the Internet had a significant influence upon mainstream news coverage and the coordination of protest activities. The findings suggest that the local Spanish press provided the most sustained coverage, and geographic propinquity to the accident was a good predicto…
Politics, Responsibility and Risk
Opening the black box
Increasingly, scientists and policy makers have come to recognize that if nanotechnologies are to achieve wide public acceptance, it is essential to engage publics during the early phase of technology development. The media, situated at the interface between scientists and lay publics, possess the potential to play a significant role in public engagement in this field. This article, drawing on data from a recent survey and interview-based study, …
Media, Politics and Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and the media have been demonstrated to play a key role in shaping public perceptions and policy agendas. Journalists are faced with multiple challenges in covering this complex field. This article provides an overview of existing research on the media framing of climate change, highlighting major research themes and assessing future potential research developments. It argues that ana…
Mediating risk
Framing risk
The concept of ‘framing’ is being increasingly recognised as a useful means of characterising the social relations of representation shaping the news reporting of science and risk. In theoretical terms, framing is often described as a discursive strategy utilised by journalists to define the nature of a particular event, a complex process with important implications for how certain occurrences are selected as newsworthy, the conventions guiding t…
Sources, media, and modes of climate change communication
This article reviews existing research on the portrayal of climate change within the print media, paying particular attention to the increasing role that celebrities have come to play within popular culture. While this is certainly not a new development, celebrities are increasingly appearing as key voices within the climate change debate, providing a powerful news hook and potential mobilizing agent. Early coverage of climate change was dominate…
Telehealthcare in care homes
It is estimated that 20% of unscheduled admissions to hospital with hip fracture are from care homes. However, evidence suggests that admissions can be reduced by increasing levels of proactive care to residents. Our aim was to utilise appropriate telehealthcare equipment to reduce the number of falls in residents. Telecare products are not new but the range of telecare equipment available has been extended and is smarter. Telecare products monit…
Media, Culture And The Environment
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics
Together we can save the arctic
Economic, institutional and organisational pressures mean that journalists have become increasingly reliant upon pre-packaged information, principally from public-relations professionals, industry and news agencies. Celebrities have become an important currency and particularly so with regard to climate change, since they can help propel the issues into the headlines. As environmental NGOs frequently find themselves at the whim of ever-shifting p…
Media, Environment and the Network Society
The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Societ
Reflections on Environmental Communication and the Challenges of a New Research Agenda
Environmental communication has become an increasingly established field of study over the past decade, yet I would have to agree with the convenors of this session that it is still not well organi
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