Environmental risks and the media (Routledge, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index
Foreword / Ulrich Beck -- Introduction : the media politics of environmental risk / Stuart Allan, Barbara Adam and Cynthia Carter -- TV news, lay voices and the visualisation of environmental risks / Simon Cottle -- Interest group strategies and journalistic norms : news media framing of environmental issues / M. Mark Miller and Bonnie Parnell Riechert -- Claims-making and framing in British newspaper coverage of the 'Brent Spar' controversy / Anders Hansen -- The burrowers : news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas / Maggie Wykes -- Environmental pressure politics and the 'risk society' / Alison Anderson -- 'Industry causes lung cancer' : would you be happy with that headline? Environmental health and local politics / Peter Phillimore and Suzanne Moffatt -- The media timescapes of BSE news / Barbara Adam -- Reporting risks : problematising public participation and the Human Genome Project / Peter Glasner -- Selling control : ideological dilemmas of sun, tanning, risk and leisure / Justine Coupland and Nikolas Coupland -- Exclusionary environments : the media career of youth homelessness / Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard -- The female body at risk : media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments / C. Kay Weaver, Cynthia Carter and Elizabeth Stanko -- 'Landscapes of fear' : public places, fear of crime and the media / John Tulloch -- Communicating climate change through the media : predictions, politics and perceptions of risk / Kris M. Wilson -- Global citizenship, the environment and the media / Bronislaw Szerszynski and Mark Toogood -- Mediating the risks of virtual environments / Joost van Loon
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