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The coronavirus crisis as tipping point: communicating the environment in a time of pandemic
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Mocatta, G and Hawley, E, The coronavirus crisis as tipping point: communicating the environment in a time of pandemic, Media International Australia, 177, (1) pp. 119-124. ISSN 1329-878X (2020) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1329878X20950030
Abstract
This essay examines media and environment during the pandemic through the conceptual lens of environmental communication. We take the pulse of environmental communication under COVID-19, noting that while the quantity of media coverage on key environmental issues has fallen during the blanket coverage of the pandemic, COVID-19 has acted on multiple levels as a moment of discursive change in environmental communication. We contend that mediatised discourse on the environment during the pandemic has offered new insights, and an opportunity for a reset in environmental understandings, including a new consciousness of global connectedness in environmental responsibility, and an opportunity to improve publics’ environmental literacy.
*** This essay is intended for the extraordinary issue, on Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication ***
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | climate change, COVID-19, environmental communication, media discourse, tipping point |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Communication and media studies |
Research Field: | Communication studies |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | The media |
UTAS Author: | Mocatta, G (Ms Gabi Mocatta) |
ID Code: | 141314 |
Year Published: | 2020 |
Deposited By: | Geography and Spatial Science |
Deposited On: | 2020-10-14 |
Last Modified: | 2020-11-17 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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