Screen LibraryThe media commons : globalization and environmental discourses /
"Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communica...
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University of Illinois Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Urbana : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The geopolitics of information
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"Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses."--Back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 192 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-180) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780252082535 (paperback) : 0252082532 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | P96 |
| CLC: | G206.7 |
| Call Number: | G206.7/M978 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Earth discourses: theorizing the environment for global media studies -- Endless growth: neoliberalism and global media's promethean logic -- Neo-Malthusian entertainment: the limits of green tv -- Battle of the blogosphere: Monsanto versus the world -- Amazonian indigenous green: media and the ecologically noble savage -- Conclusion: earth discourses and the question of agency in the media commons. |