Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media : Constructed Facts, Contested Truths

This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication.

Arguing that science must be understood from an inclusive perspective, respecting public values and concerns alongside scientific arguments, the authors demonstrate how this will allow us to properly understand the role of science, truth, and factuality alongside the ethical, cultural, and political concerns about science raised in different publics. The chapters focus on the more controversial aspects of science and environmental communication: misinformation, public understandings of science and the environmental crises, vaccination, and the role of the hybrid mediascape in science, environment, and climate conflicts.

Offering a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of science of media in science and environment conflicts, this book will appeal to students and academics in the areas of media and communication, journalism, cultural studies, science, environment and risk communication, and digital media studies, as well as sociology and political science.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Mette Marie Roslyng is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on how discourses of science, technology, and the environment are represented, contested, and politicised in the media and in public debates.

Anna Rantasila is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She’s also a member of the Disinformation, Propaganda & Soft Power Research Lab at LUT. Her current work focuses on affect and emotion in various online environments, particularly in the context of news, disinformation, and popular culture.

Anna Maria Jönsson is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has extensive experience of research about journalism and climate change, science communication, and public engagement.