Pat Brereton

Environmental Literacy and New Digital Audiences

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the power and influence of media formats and outlets like YouTube and gaming, alongside fictional and documentary film, this book considers new modes of environmental literacy to ascertain the effectiveness of digital and filmic stimuli on audiences' perception of environmental issues, and its specific impact on environmental action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138049253
• ISBN-10: 1138049255
• Artikelnr.: 54801172

Autorenporträt

Pat Brereton is a Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, and has taught and published extensively around environmental communications and all forms of new media.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Environmental Literacy Introduction
2 Understanding Audience Psychology and Trigger Points for Promoting
Environmental Literacy
3 Promoting New Media Literacy
4 Food Documentaries and Green Anxieties: Actively promoting Environmental
Literacy
5 Eco-Documentaries: Old Problems New Aesthetic Opportunities
6 Contemporary Hollywood Blockbusters and Environmental Narratives
7 An Environmental Reading of Post 9/11 American Televisual Series
8 Netflix and Emerging Streaming Networks: New Forms of Immersive and
Addictive Narratives and Characterisation
9 Video Games and Environmental Learning: New Modes of Audience Engagement
10 Going Viral: YouTube and New Forms of Environmental Literacy
11 Conclusion: Constructing an Environmental Literacy Consensus through New
Media
Index