Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media Constructed Facts, Contested Truths

• Main Author: Roslyng, Mette Marie
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
• Subjects: Climate change; Communicating science; Communication Studies; Critical perspectives; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; disinformation; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Environmental communication; Environmental crisis; fake news; global warming; History; History and Archaeology; Hybrid Media; Interdisciplinary studies; Language Arts; Language Arts & Disciplines; Media Studies; misinformation; Nonfiction; Politics and government; Pollution and threats to the environment; populism; post-truth; Public concern; Public understanding of science; Public values; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; right-wing media; risk communication; Science communication; Science communications; Social impact of environmental issues; social media; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; The Arts; The environment; vaccine science; Science communication; populism; misinformation; environmental communication; vaccine science; risk communication; global warming; post-truth; disinformation; social media; fake news; right-wing media; climate change
• ISBN: 9781032766683; 9781032766652; 1032766689; 1032766654; 1003479553; 9781003479550; 1040362605; 9781040362600; 9781040362549; 1040362540
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003479550

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.