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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.
Sommario
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
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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; Sean Scanlan; Timothy Marin; Joaquín Montero; Kit O'Toole; Maria Lucia Piga
Riassunto
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.
