[ecrea] International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics - Special issue on Climate Change

International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
Special issue 9.1 on Climate Change out now (Intellect)
Edited by An Nguyen and Matthew Hibberd

Climate change is one of the key political, economic and social issues 
facing the human race in the twenty-first century. One of the key 
problems examined by articles in this issue is that common visions or 
mutual understandings of climate change have remained difficult to 
execute properly, whether one looks at international agreements or 
initiatives in affecting behavioural change. While the scientific basis 
for climate change arguments strengthens year by year, finding any unity 
of purpose among publics to tackle the climate change issues remains 
elusive. Climate change communications are tied too closely to vaguer 
and contested notions of national, regional and local identities, 
cultural meanings and values, media treatment of climate change debates 
and audience dissemination of texts and images.

CONTENTS
Articles
* Public engagement with climate change: What do we know and where do we 
go from here? (Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O’Neill and Irene Lorenzoni)
* Climate change communications and young people in the Kingdom: A 
reception study. (Matthew Hibberd and An Nguyen)
* Journalism, climate science and the public: Towards better practices. 
(Steve McIlwaine)
* The framing of climate change in Italian politics and its impact on 
public opinion. (Emiliana De Blasio and Michele Sorice)
* Thai audiences and journalists’ responses to a holistic, 
future-oriented, participatory and empowering (HOPE) model for climate 
change coverage. (Jessada Salathong)
* Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change 
sciences. (Einar Thorsen)

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ABOUT THE JOURNAL

The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is 
committed to analysing the politics of communication(s) and cultural 
processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international 
and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues 
defined by their specific cultural geography and those which traverse 
cultures and nations. MCP promotes critical, in-depth, engaged research 
on the intersections of sociology, politics, cultural studies and media 
studies and invites sharp, contemporary, stimulating analyses of issues 
of live concern for a broad range of cultures and nations and for the 
international community.

Edited by Katharine Sarikakis and Neil Blain.

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Abstracting and Indexing:
MLA; Current Abstracts; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Communication & 
Mass Media Complete; Film and Television Literature Index; Communication 
Abstracts Online; British Humanities Index; Scopus

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Dr. Marina Dekavalla

Lecturer in Journalism Studies
Communications, Media and Culture
School of Arts & Humanities
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland





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