Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths [Hardcover]

Preface?

1. Introduction: Contesting truths in science and environment communication

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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

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

4. Cli-fi and five narratives of future warming

5. Green populism: Counterpublics and the formation of counterknowledge

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Part 2: Contested science: Conspiracy and counter-knowledge

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

7. Knowledge and counter-knowledge: The construction of facts in vaccination debates

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

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Part 3: Constructing public knowledge and trust

9. Mediated science and issues of public knowledge and trust

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

11. Nuclear stories in the news media: filtering and altering of expert views

12. Journalists-sources relations in Russian environmental journalism

13. Conclusion: From constructing facts to constructing expertise and trust?

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Index

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