Ecomedia

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment.

Introduction: Ecologies of Media Part 1: Frames 1. Overview: Framing Visual Texts for Ecomedia Studies 2. Beyond Nature Photography: The Possibilities and Responsibilities of Seeing 3. Eco-nostalgia in Popular Turkish Cinema 4. The Aesthetics of Environmental Equity in American Newspaper Strips Part 2: Flow 5. Overview: Flow--An Ecocritical Perspective on Broadcast Media 6. "I Took Off My Pants And Felt Free": The Subject of Environmentalism in Countercultural Radio 7. Hostile or Hospitable: New Zealand Television Maps Degrees of Belonging 8. Earth Observation and Signal Territories: U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure, Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork Part 3: Convergence 9. Overview: Bert Versus the Black Phoenix: An Introduction to Convergence and Ecomedia 10. Selling With Gaia: Advertising and the Natural World 11. Where the Wild Games Are: Ecologies in Latin American Video Games 12. New Media, Environmental NGOs and Online-Based Collective Actions in China 13. Earth Imaging: Photograph, Pixel, Program