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Climate Change and Storytelling : Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (142 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319693835
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.73874
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Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Narratives Matter in Climate Change Communication -- Using This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Climate Change Communication Studies: Inquiries into Beliefs, Information and Stories -- Risk Perception and Risk Communication -- Discourse-Analytic Studies: Media Logic, Scientific Reporting and Science Communication -- Media Coverage of Climate Change I: The Issue Attention Cycle -- Media Coverage of Climate Change II: The Norm of Balanced Reporting -- Science Communication: Critiquing the Deficit Model of Information -- The Role of Culture in Climate Change Research -- Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory Approaches -- Cultural Sociology Approach Towards Climate Change -- Lessons Learned from the State of Research -- References -- Chapter 3: How to Understand the Role of Narratives in Environmental Communication: Cultural Narrative Analysis -- The Role of Narrative in Social Organization -- Formal Definitions of Narrative -- A Typology of Narrative Analysis -- The Structural Model of Narrative: The Structure of Narrative -- The Structural Model of Genre: The Form of Narrative -- The Narrative Policy Framework: The Content of Narrative -- Shortcomings of the Presented Models of Narrative Analysis -- Structure - Form - Content: Towards an Integrated Model of Cultural Narrative Analysis -- References -- Chapter 4: Telling the Stories of Climate Change: Structure and Content -- Methods -- Putting a Price on Things: Serving the Economic Rationale -- Negative Economic Consequences -- Content -- Structure -- Positive Economic Consequences -- Content -- Structure -- Climate Change in the Political Arena: Two Contexts of Climate Change as a Political Issue -- Climate Change as Partisan Distinction -- Content -- Structure.
Climate Change Reflecting the Role of a Nation -- Content -- Structure -- The World Is (Not) Enough: Environmental Concerns as a Topic of Morality -- Content -- Structure -- About the "Global" in "Global Warming": Solidarity and Responsibility as Motivators -- Structure -- Historic Responsibility -- Content -- Structure -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusions: Pitfalls and the Power of Narratives -- Recurring Motifs and Themes -- Topics as Result of the Relationship Between Storyteller and Audience -- Boundaries Between Characters -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Narratives Matter in Climate Change Communication -- Using This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Climate Change Communication Studies: Inquiries into Beliefs, Information and Stories -- Risk Perception and Risk Communication -- Discourse-Analytic Studies: Media Logic, Scientific Reporting and Science Communication -- Media Coverage of Climate Change I: The Issue Attention Cycle -- Media Coverage of Climate Change II: The Norm of Balanced Reporting -- Science Communication: Critiquing the Deficit Model of Information -- The Role of Culture in Climate Change Research -- Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory Approaches -- Cultural Sociology Approach Towards Climate Change -- Lessons Learned from the State of Research -- References -- Chapter 3: How to Understand the Role of Narratives in Environmental Communication: Cultural Narrative Analysis -- The Role of Narrative in Social Organization -- Formal Definitions of Narrative -- A Typology of Narrative Analysis -- The Structural Model of Narrative: The Structure of Narrative -- The Structural Model of Genre: The Form of Narrative -- The Narrative Policy Framework: The Content of Narrative -- Shortcomings of the Presented Models of Narrative Analysis -- Structure - Form - Content: Towards an Integrated Model of Cultural Narrative Analysis -- References -- Chapter 4: Telling the Stories of Climate Change: Structure and Content -- Methods -- Putting a Price on Things: Serving the Economic Rationale -- Negative Economic Consequences -- Content -- Structure -- Positive Economic Consequences -- Content -- Structure -- Climate Change in the Political Arena: Two Contexts of Climate Change as a Political Issue -- Climate Change as Partisan Distinction -- Content -- Structure.

Climate Change Reflecting the Role of a Nation -- Content -- Structure -- The World Is (Not) Enough: Environmental Concerns as a Topic of Morality -- Content -- Structure -- About the "Global" in "Global Warming": Solidarity and Responsibility as Motivators -- Structure -- Historic Responsibility -- Content -- Structure -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusions: Pitfalls and the Power of Narratives -- Recurring Motifs and Themes -- Topics as Result of the Relationship Between Storyteller and Audience -- Boundaries Between Characters -- References -- Index.

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