Overview
- Examines media representations of everyday sustainable living
- Analyses popular television shows and personalities such as Kevin McCloud and Grand Designs, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Hugh’s War on Waste
- Covers a broad scope of environmental media, including journalism, entertainment media and advertising; and online, print and broadcast media
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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About this book
This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local community to broader political, social and economic contexts. The book shows how green lifestyle media negotiate issues of sustainability in varying ways, reproducing the logic of existing consumer society while also sometimes providing projections of a more environmentally friendly existence. In this way, the book argues that everyday lifestyles are not an irredeemable problem for environmentalism but an important site of environmental politics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Geoffrey Craig teaches in the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author of Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences (2016) and The Media, Politics and Public Life (2004), and the co-author of Slow Living (2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life
Authors: Geoffrey Craig
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53469-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53468-2Published: 18 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71005-8Due: 15 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53469-9Published: 04 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 236
Topics: Media Studies, Environmental Communication, Media and Communication, Environment, general