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The media commons : globalization and environmental discourses /

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork and empirical research to map how the media communicates tod...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murphy, Patrick D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Geopolitics of information.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Earth discourses: theorizing the environment for global media studies
  • Endless growth: neoliberalism and global media's promethean logic
  • Neo-Malthusian entertainment: the limits of green tv
  • Battle of the blogosphere: Monsanto versus the world
  • Amazonian Indigenous green: media and the ecologically noble savage
  • Conclusion: earth discourses and the question of agency in the media commons.