Participatory Media in Environmental Communication

Engaging Communities in the Periphery

Bibliographic Data

ID19906789
AuthorsUsha Sundar Harris (0000-0002-0348-5192, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages182
Publication date2018-09-13
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueParticipatory Media in Environmental Communication (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315622576
OpenAlexW4255061317
ISBN9781315622576
Open LibraryOL52546387M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

Citizen journalism · Environmental communication · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Communication en environnement · Communication in the environmental sciences · Conditions environnementales · Ecology · environmental conditions · Islands of the pacific · Mass media and the environment · Médias et environnement · Psychology · Social psychology

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