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Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive vis...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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volume 55 |
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Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for tomorrow's realities. Image Politics of Climate Change combines a wide interdisciplinary range of perspectives and questions, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate sciences, computer graphics, art, curating, art history and visual studies, communication and cultural science, environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (388 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839426104 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QC903 |
| CLC: | P467 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction / The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences / Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes / "Tricks," Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character / The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC s Burning Embers / Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 / Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media / Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges / Color Plates -- Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication / The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone / How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change / The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action? / Picturing the State of the Nation s Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s / Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable / Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering / Contributing Authors. |