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This collection examines the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues and how they portrayed in the media. The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and argue that although the interests of planet and people are often seen in opposition, they are, in reality, symbiotic.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: One Humanity, One Planet, and the Media
Luigi Manca and Jean-Marie Kauth
Section One: Imagining a Better Future for Humanity
Envisioning a Simple One Planet-One Humanity Utopia: Exploring John Lennon's Imagine
Kit O'Toole
A Generic Cosmopolitanism Is Not an Alternative to the Damages of Globalization
Federico Francioni
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations: Reality or Utopia?
Joaquín Montero
Utopian Hackers and the Drive to Change the World
Chris Birks
Section Two: Media, Humanity, and the Common Good
An Hypothesis about the Role of Gateopener in the Westley-MacLean Model
Luigi Manca
Occupy the Media: Towards a Communication System for the 99 Percent
Steve Macek
Public Radio and Public Access: Applying HD Radio Technology to a New Form of Broadcast Localism
Craig Stark
The Press and the Politics of Genocide
Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
Solidarity Know-How in Local Development: Translating Civil Virtues into Practice
Maria Lucia Piga
The Communicative Dimension in a Globalized World and the Globalization of Social Rights
Francesco Villa
Section Three: Environmental Science and the Media
Lost in Translation?: Public Perceptions and Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change Risks
Pierpaolo Duce
Viable Scientific Communication and the Mass Media
Timothy W. Marin
The 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: An Opportunity Lost
Elizabeth Dobbins
Pope Francis on the Ecological Crisis: Its Nature, Causes, and Urgency
Martin Tracey
Section Four: Ecocriticism and the Popular Imagination Windmills and Dandelions and Polar Bears, Oh My!: Contested Icons of Environmental and Anti-Environmental Rhetoric
Jean-Marie Kauth
Environmental Perceptions of College Students
Anne Marie Smith
Good Company? The Non-Ephemeral Catalog as Intervention
Elizabeth Kubek
Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling as Global Society's Environmental Unconscious
Jean-Marie Kauth
Nature and Art: Seeing Beauty amidst the Ruins
William Scarlato
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Jean-Marie Kauth is associate professor of literature at Benedictine University.
Luigi Manca is professor of communication arts at Benedictine University.
Summary
This collection examines the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues and how they portrayed in the media. The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and argue that although the interests of planet and people are often seen in opposition, they are, in reality, symbiotic.
