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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Luigi Manca and Jean-Marie Kauth - Contributions by Chris Birks; Elizabeth G. Dobbins; Pierpaolo Duce; Federico G. Francioni; Elizabeth Kubek; Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy; Timothy Marin; Joaquín Montero; Kit O'Toole; Maria Lucia Piga; William Scar Klappentext This collection asks and answers a basic question: what is the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues, and how are these portrayed in the media? The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and argue that although the interests of ... Zusammenfassung This collection asks and answers a basic question: what is the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues! and how are these 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgments 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'TooleA Generic Cosmopolitanism Is Not an Alternative to the Damages of Globalization Federico FrancioniThe United Nations Alliance of Civilizations: Reality or Utopia? Joaquín MonteroUtopian 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 MacekPublic Radio and Public Access: Applying HD Radio Technology to a New Form of Broadcast Localism Craig StarkThe Press and the Politics of Genocide Marian Mesrobian MacCurdySolidarity Know-How in Local Development: Translating Civil Virtues into Practice Maria Lucia PigaThe 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 DuceViable Scientific Communication and the Mass Media Timothy W. MarinThe 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring: An Opportunity Lost Elizabeth DobbinsPope 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 SmithGood Company? The Non-Ephemeral Catalog as Intervention Elizabeth KubekPost-Apocalyptic Storytelling as Global Society's Environmental Unconscious ...