ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the dynamic terrain of mass media and environmental politics. Through time, mass media coverage has proven to be a key contributor-among a number of factors-that has shaped and affected ongoing interactions within environmental politics. Mass media representations frame environmental issues for policy, politics and the public, and draw attention to salient actors negotiating the spaces of environmental politics. Following on from this work, Burgess put forward a foundational and conceptual work regarding the production and consumption of environmental meaning via the media, and commented on the emerging need to examine aspects of the intersections between mass media, science, environmental politics and public citizens. The chapter focuses on movements in environmental politics in the public sphere, there is a rich literature that addresses facets of individual understanding and engagement with media and an environmental issues. Interactions between media and environmental politics are complex, dynamic and messy.
