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Visual Environmental Communication

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Visual Environmental Communication

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Visual Environmental Communication book

Visual Environmental Communication

DOI link for Visual Environmental Communication

Visual Environmental Communication book

Edited ByAnders Hansen, David Machin
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 1 October 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753492
Pages 184
eBook ISBN 9781315753492
Subjects Arts, Communication Studies, Environment and Sustainability
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Hansen, A., & Machin, D. (Eds.). (2014). Visual Environmental Communication (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753492

ABSTRACT

In 2008, the editors published a well-cited journal paper arguing that while scholarly work on media representations of environmental issues had made substantial progress in textual analysis there had been much less work on visual representations. This is surprising given the increasingly visual nature of media and communication, and in light of emerging evidence that the environment is visualized through the use of increasingly symbolic and iconic images.

Addressing these matters, this volume marks out the present state of the field and contains chapters that represent fresh and exciting high quality scholarly work now emerging on visual environmental communication. These include a range of fascinating and often alarming topics which draw on a variety of methods and forms of visual communication. The book demonstrates that research needs to think much more widely about what we mean by the ‘visual’ which plays a massive yet under-researched role in the politics and ideology of public understanding and misunderstanding of and the environment and environmental problems. 

The book is of relevance to students and researchers in media and communication studies, cultural studies, film and visual studies, geography, sociology, politics and other disciplines with an interest in the politics of visual environmental communication.

This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction: Researching Visual Environmental Communication

ByAnders Hansen & David Machin

chapter 2|22 pages

Visualizing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Debate

ByElizabeth Anne Gervais Schwarz

chapter 3|20 pages

Imaging Toxins

ByJennifer Peeples

chapter 4|18 pages

Selling Nature in a Resource- Based Economy: Romantic/Extractive

ByGazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands Geo Takach

chapter 5|24 pages

“Single- minded, compelling, and unique”: Visual Communications, Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding

ByNicole Porter

chapter 6|22 pages

The Nature of Time: How the Covers of the World’s Most Widely Read Weekly News Magazine Visualize Environmental Affairs

ByMark S. Meisner & Bruno Takahashi

chapter 7|20 pages

Sporting Nature(s): Wildness, the Primitive, and Naturalizing Imagery in MMA and Sports Advertisements

ByMatthew P. Ferrari

chapter 8|18 pages

Mobilizing Artists: Green Patriot Posters, Visual Metaphors, and Climate Change Activism

ByBrian Cozen
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