[Commlist] New book: Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media

Routledge is pleased to announce the publication of the edited volume 
Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid 
Media. Constructed Facts, Contested Truths.

The book is available both for purchase and as an Open Access 
publication. For more information, please see: 
https://www.routledge.com/Communicating-Science-Climate-Change-and-the-Environment-in-Hybrid-Media-Constructed-Facts-Contested-Truths/Roslyng-Rantasila-Jonsson/p/book/9781032766652

Book description:

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.

An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the 
support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU is a 
collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access 
for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 
9781003479550. More information about the initiative and links to the 
Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.

Table of Contents:

Author biographies

Preface

1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment 
communication. Anna Maria Jönsson, Mette Marie Roslyng, and Anna Rantasila

Part I: Environmental and climate truths in media

2. The scientification of risks and the risks of scientification: 
Insights from the coverage of artificial turf pitches as microplastic 
pollutants in Sweden. Ernesto Abalo

3. Web of denial: Climate change denial discourse on Instagram. Virág Vécsey

4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming. Gregers Andersen

5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledge. 
Óscar García Agustín and Isabel Jerne

Part 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge

6. Fighting (for) truth? Alex Jones, the WHO and the legitimation of 
conspiracy discourse. Massimiliano Demata

7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in 
vaccination debate. Gorm Larsen and Mette Marie Roslyng

8. Citizen activists or pandemic deniers? Alternative voices in the 
Finnish journalistic media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maarit Mäkinen

Part 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust

9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust. Anna Maria 
Jönsson

10. Constructing trust with affective discipline: Finnish nuclear energy 
experts and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Anna Rantasila

11. Nuclear stories in the news media: Filtering and altering of expert 
views. Gabor Sarlos

12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism. 
Olga Dovbysh and Mika Perkiömäki

13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and 
trust? Anna Rantasila, Anna Maria Jönsson, and Mette Marie Roslyng

Index


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