This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication.
Arguing that science must be understood from an inclusive perspective, respecting public values and concerns alongside scientific arguments, the authors demonstrate how this will allow us to properly understand the role of science, truth, and factuality alongside the ethical, cultural, and political concerns about science raised in different publics. The chapters focus on the more controversial aspects of science and environmental communication: misinformation, public understandings of science and the environmental crises, vaccination, and the role of the hybrid mediascape in science, environment, and climate conflicts.
Offering a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of science of media in science and environment conflicts, this book will appeal to students and academics in the areas of media and communication, journalism, cultural studies, science, environment and risk communication, and digital media studies, as well as sociology and political science.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 9781003479550. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communication
Part I: Environmental and climate truths in media
2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic pollutants in Sweden
3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram
4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming
5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledge
Part 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge
6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of conspiracy discourse
7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates
8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemic
Part 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust
9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust
10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster
11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views
12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism
13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?
Index
