Visual Environmental Communication

ISBN-13: 9781138803756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 170 str.

Anders Hansen; David Machin

Opis

The environment is visualized through the use of increasingly symbolic and iconic images. This volume marks out the present state of the field and contains chapters that represent fresh and exciting 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.

Spis treści

1. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Researching Visual Environmental Communication  2. Visualizing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Debate  3. Imaging Toxins  4. Selling Nature In a Resource-based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta’s Bituminous Sands  5. “Single-minded, compelling, and unique”: Visual Communications, Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding  6. The Nature of Time: How the Covers of the World’s Most Widely Read Weekly News Magazine Visualize Environmental Affairs  7. Sporting Nature(s): Wildness, the Primitive, and Naturalizing Imagery in MMA and Sports Advertisements  8. Mobilizing Artists: Green Patriot Posters, Visual Metaphors, and Climate Change Activism

O autorze

Anders Hansen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK. He has published extensively on media and the environment, including Environment, Media and Communication and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication (co-edited with Robert Cox). He is founder and ex-Chair of the IAMCR Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group, founding member and Secretary to the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), and Associate Editor for Environmental Communication.

David Machin is Professor of Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden. He has published extensively on visual communication and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, such as Introduction to Multimodal Analysis, Global Media Discourse and The Language of War Monuments and a recent multidisciplinary edited collection called Visual Communication. He is co-editor for the international peer reviewed journals Journal of Language and Politics and Social Semiotics.