Description: Extreme Weather and Global Media, Hardcover by Leyda, Julia (EDT); Negra, Diane (EDT), ISBN 1138798789, ISBN-13 9781138798786, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This timely collection pinpoints the features of an often overlooked yet rapidly expanding category of global media and analyzes both its forms and functions. Specifically, contributors argue that the intense promotion and consumption of 'extreme weather' events takes up the slack for the public conversations society is not having about the environment, and the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies the realization that anthropogenic climate change has now reached a point of no return. Incorporating a range of case studies of extreme weather mediation in India, the UK, Germany, Sweden, the US, and Japan, and exploring recent and ongoing disasters such as Superstorm Sandy, the Fukushima nuclear crisis, flooding in Germany, and heat waves in the UK, Extreme Weather and Global Media generates valuable inquiry into the representational and social characteristics of the new culture of extreme weather.
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Book Title: Extreme Weather and Global Media
Number of Pages: 222 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Extreme Weather and Global Media
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Media Studies, Television / History & Criticism
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Author: Diane Negra
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
