Mediating Sustainability in the Consumer Society

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, a tool to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services. For scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students of sustainability, design, visual communication, fashion, consumption, media and journalism, and sustainable development.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Ethics 1. Sustainability and its discontents: recovering the sources of value 2. Sustainability discourses and the question of democracy 3. Exploring Norway's audiovisual industry: a study on communicated engagement in sustainable practices Part 2: Consumption 4. Who can stop the greenwashing 5. Future of sustainable fashion communications: from marketing messages to the mediation of mutable meanings Part 3: Communication 6. Creating sustainability by mythmaking: IKEA's advertising campaigns "The Trash Collection" and "The Life Collection" 7. Cultivating responsibility through Instagram: fashion, revolution and narrative 8. Imagination and agency: on the role of fiction in ecological discourses Part 4: Literacy 9. Redefining digital literacy for sustainable mediation 10. Communicating sustainable uses of plastics in a museum setting: the case of the Museum of Design in Plastics 11. Indigenous approaches to mediation of the climate and nature emergency: a conversation with Vanessa Andreotti

About the author

Astrid Skjerven is Professor Emerita of Design Theory at the Department of Product Design, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.
Lisbeth Løvbak Berg is a researcher in the Sustainable Textile and Food Consumption Research Group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.
Liv Merete Nielsen is Professor Emerita of Design Education at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.
Dagny Stuedahl is Professor of Media Design in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, and Henrik-Steffens Professor at Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2022-2025).

Summary

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, a tool to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services. For scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students of sustainability, design, visual communication, fashion, consumption, media and journalism, and sustainable development.

Product details

• Authors: Astrid (Oslo and Akershus University Col Skjerven
• Assisted by: Lisbeth Løvbak Berg (Editor), Liv Merete Nielsen (Editor), Astrid Skjerven (Editor), Dagny Stuedahl (Editor), Stuedahl Dagny (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032492193
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249219-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Advertising, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Media Studies, Product Design, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Advertising & Promotion, DESIGN / Product, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business