ABSTRACT
The Arctic has become a symbol of global environmental change. Equally important for understanding this region is how the compression of time and space through digital mediation has made it impossible to conceive of the local or regional without bringing in the global, and vice versa. What role can regional international governance play in this discursive field? This chapter provides the theoretical foundation for an analysis of how media, politics and technologies intersect to create narratives with geopolitical implications. It specifically places the regional into a context of shifting media ecologies and conflicting interests and perspectives across scales. This provides the basis for a discussion on the role of international regions in facing up to major global challenges such as climate change.
