News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319705083 ISBN 13: 9783319705088

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society about the importance of strategic communication and the news media in informing current societal and policy discussions about environmental issues. With this in mind, this volume explores the content of reporting as well as the structural and individual contests faced by media organizations and journalists, with a focus on the very unique political, social, cultural and environmental conditions that affect the countries individually. The book provides a survey of the most relevant and current environmental issues that have attracted public attention across the region and within countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the first part of the 21st century.

This volume will be of interest to students, instructors and researchers interested in Latin America and the Caribbean, media and the environment.

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About the Author

Bruno Takahashi is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, USA.

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

Manuel Chavez is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, USA.

Mercedes Vigón is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

From the Back Cover

This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society about the importance of strategic communication and the news media in informing current societal and policy discussions about environmental issues. With this in mind, this volume explores the content of reporting as well as the structural and individual contests faced by media organizations and journalists, with a focus on the very unique political, social, cultural and environmental conditions that affect the countries individually. The book provides a survey of the most relevant and current environmental issues that have attracted public attention across the region and within countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the first part of the 21st century.

This volume will be of interest to students, instructors and researchers interested in Latin America and the Caribbean, media and the environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319705083
• ISBN 13: 9783319705088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Takahashi Bruno, Pinto Juliet, Chavez Manuel, Vigón Mercedes