Climate Change and the Media unites articles by an international group of scholars discussing climate change and the role of the media. This edited collection examines the changing nature of media coverage around the world. Chapters consider the impact of public relations and fictional programming, the relationship between public understanding and media coverage, and the impact of the media industries themselves on climate change. The collection details the role the media plays in this issue.

Contents:

• "Simon Cottle: Series Editor's Preface: Global Crises and the Media -
• Justin Lewis/Tammy Boyce: Climate Change and the Media: The Scale of the Challenge
• Richard Maxwell/Toby Miller: Talking Rubbish: Green Citizenship, Media, and the Environment -
• Rowan Howard-Williams: Ideological Construction of Climate Change in Australian and New Zealand Newspapers -
• Catherine Butler/Nick Pidgeon: Media Communications and Public Understanding of Climate Change: Reporting Scientific Consensus on Anthropogenic Warming
• Robert E.T. Ward: Climate Change, the Public, and the Media in the UK: A Watershed Moment
• Grace Reid: The Climate Change Docudrama: Challenges in Simultaneously Entertaining and Informing Audiences
• Stephen Zehr: An Environmentalist/Economic Hybrid Frame in US Press Coverage of Climate Change, 2000-2008
• Tim Holmes: Balancing Acts: PR, "Impartiality", and Power in Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change
• Julie Doyle: Climate Action and Environmental Activism: The Role of Environmental NGOs and Grassroots Movements in the Global Politics of Climate Change
• Mike Hulme: Mediated Messages about Climate Change: Reporting the IPCC Fourth Assessment in the UK Print Media
• Neil T. Gavin: The Web and Climate Change Politics: Lessons from Britain?
• Mike Shanahan: Time to Adapt? Media Coverage of Climate Change in Nonindustrialised Countries
• Yan Wu: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Framing of China in News Media Coverage of Global Climate Change
• Lyn McGaurr/Libby Lester: Complementary Problems, Competing Risks: Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, and the Australian
• Alex Lockwood: Preparations for a Post-Kyoto Media Coverage of UK Climate Policy
• Astrid Dirikx/Dave Gelders: Global Warming through the Same Lens: An Explorative Framing Study in Dutch and French Newspapers
• Peter Berglez/Birgitta Höijer/Ulrika Olausson: Individualisation and Nationalisation of the Climate Issue: Two Ideological Horizons in Swedish News Media."

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Email from Mike Shanahan to The Communication Initiative on June 25 2009.