[ecrea] Communication and climate change - journal Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente

*Communication and climate change*

Special issue of /Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente/

(published by//Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)

Edited by Eloisa Loose and Anabela Carvalho

http://revistas.ufpr.br/made/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Climate change is often considered one of the greatest 
socio-environmental challenges of our times. It interacts with a series 
of other factors that further strain the relation between society and 
the environment, and mitigating it requires major socio-economic and 
policy transformations.

Although alterations in climate patterns are not always perceptible in 
people’s daily lives, the mass media have turned climate change into a 
topic familiar to most and have contributed to put the issue on 
political agendas in the last few years. A vast number of social agents 
have advanced diverse readings and propositions, which obtain different 
levels of visibility in conventional media and gain expression in other 
communication platforms without professional mediation, including social 
media and various types of web-based spaces.

The connections between communication studies and climate change-related 
matters are not simple or linear, and involve multiple questions. For 
instance: How have the media contributed to reinforcing the status quo 
regarding climate-relevant policies or, instead, have pushed for 
transformation? To what extent have dominant discourses promoted citizen 
engagement? Which discourses can be identified in alternative media and 
other communication spaces?

With an interdisciplinary vocation, this special issue of the journal 
/Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente/ will aim to identify possibilities and 
limits of climate change communication, including the ‘moments’ of 
production, circulation and reception. Reflecting on media discourses on 
climate change as well as discussing the concrete conditions and 
complexities of communication practices and interactions with the 
scientific, economic and political fields are, amongst others, important 
goals.

Examples of topics that will be welcome in this special issue include:

- media representations of climate change (e.g. text, image, video or 
multimodal analyses);

- discourses on climate change by different social actors (governments, 
scientific bodies, non-governmental organizations, etc.);

- communication strategies of civic movements and non-governmental 
organizations;

- consumption/reception of climate change communication;

- citizenship and communication;

- communication and political processes on climate change.


Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2016

Publication date: December 2016


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