The Environment in the Age of the Internet. Activists, Communication and the Digital Landscape

194 Pages·2016·2.501 MB·English

by  Heike Graf (ed.), Coppélie Cocq, Madeleine Hurd, Virginia Melián, Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg, Steffen Werther

The Environment in the Age of the Internet
Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape
Heike Graf (dir.)
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Year of publication: 2016
Published on OpenEdition Books: 1 June 2017
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Electronic ISBN: 9782821881631
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Date of publication: 1 January 2016
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Number of pages: xiv + 175

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THE ENVIRONMENT
IN THE AGE OF
THE INTERNET

The Environment in the
Age of the Internet
Activists, Communication,
and the Digital Landscape
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Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
1. Introduction 1
Heike Graf
Resonance in News Media 4
About this Volume 7
References 17
2. The Environment in Disguise: Insurgency and Digital Media 21
in the Southern Cone
Virginia Melián
Background 24
Digital Media and Protest 26
The Study 28
Camouflaged Arguments 30
User-Generated Content and Mainstream Media 32
Networking beyond the Digital 34
Mobile Personal Engagement 37
Opportunities for Public Debate 40
Civic Engagement and Media Practice 42
Conclusion 46
References 49
3. Exploitation or Preservation? Your Choice! Digital Modes of 53
Expressing Perceptions of Nature and the Land
Coppélie Cocq
Mining Boom, Land Rights, and Perceptions of the 55
Environment
YouTube: A Channel for Environmental Activism 56
Contesting Narratives 63
Media Logic 65
Polarisation or Zone of Contact 69
Conclusions 71
References 72
4. Natural Ecology Meets Media Ecology: Indigenous Climate 75
Change Activists’ Views on Nature and Media
Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg
Introduction 75
Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge 79
Defining Media Ecology 81
Method and Material 83
Analysis 86
Conclusions 97
References 101
5. The Culture of Nature: The Environmental Communication 105
of Gardening Bloggers
Heike Graf
Garden Blogs 106
Environmental Communication from a Systems-Theoretical 108
Perspective
Difference-Theoretical Approach 108
The Role of Topics 112
Ecology and Gardening in the Mainstream Media 113
The Topics of Gardening Blogs 116
Consumption: Developing/Refusing a ‘Buyosphere’ 117
Production: Developing Green Gardening 124
Conclusions 130
References 133
6. The Militant Media of Neo-Nazi Environmentalism 137
Madeleine Hurd and Steffen Werther
NPD Media: Party Websites 140
Emotions 141
The NPD and the Environment 145
The Neo-Nazi World of Umwelt & Aktiv 149
Nature-Oriented Action: A Cure for National Ills 154
Women, Youth, and Germanic Nature: From Umwelt to 156
Aktion
References 165
Index 171