The Climate of Publicity

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-173
Author(s):  
Melissa Aronczyk ◽  
Maria I. Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Strategic Resource ◽  
The Way

Chapter 6, The Climate of Publicity, examines the media plans, mobilization efforts, and marketing devices that climate advocates use to promote “the planet” to various publics as an object of concern. While PR appears in the world as a neutral technology of legitimation, this chapter demonstrates the degree to which the practice is culturally determined and the way its conception of publics as situational, contingent, and self-interested plays out. Drawing on interviews with environmental advocates, movement leaders, NGOs, and climate communication teams, we show how PR, conceptualized by environmentalists as a strategic resource against established systems of power, ultimately reproduces those systems of power, leaving unchanged the substance of response to the “super wicked” problem of climate change.

scholarly journals infância, cultura visual e educação

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 01-20
Author(s):  
Adriana Hoffmann Fernandes ◽  
Helenice Mirabelli Cassino
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article combines thoughts about childhood, visual culture and education. It is known that we live among multiple images that shape the way we see our reality, and researchers in the visual culture field investigate how this role is played out in our culture. The goal is to make some applications those ideas, to think about the relationship between the images and education. This article tries to grasp what visual culture is and in what ways presumptions about childhood generate and are generated by this association. It also discusses the genesis of these presumptions and the images they generate through a philosophical approach, questioning the role of education in a culture tied to the media, and about how children, who are familiar with multiple screens, presage a new visual literacy. We see how images play a fundamental role in the way children give meaning to the world around them and to themselves, in the context of their local culture. Given this context, it is necessary to consider how visual culture is tied to the elementary school, and what challenges confront the generation of wider and more creative ways to approach visual framing in children’s education.

Moving Forward for Community Inclusion and Policy Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Reyes Mason ◽  
Jonathan Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Community Inclusion ◽  
The Way

This chapter synthesizes the book’s themes of contextualizing climate change in community realities, reflecting on the five climate reductionisms introduced in the opening chapter and taking actionable progress toward policy change. Though climate change is a wicked problem, characterized by uncertainty and complexity, the way forward for socially just solutions must include purposeful, meaningful partnerships with communities in ways that recognize their own inherent diversity, value their knowledge, and address their manifold needs. However, partnerships for policy change might be conceived as a wicked “solution”: They will involve many stakeholders, there is little precedent for how to make them successful, and there are still questions of whether they are needed in all phases of the policy process or for all policy decisions.

scholarly journals The Man-Shell

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Gordana Stamenković
Keyword(s):  
Final Part ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

The author tends to analyze the main characteristics of the media today and the consequences of relevant media activity to the society and the man. A special place in the article is reserved for the consideration of the phenomenon referred to as the man-shell, that is, the way of online life that is becoming more frequent in modern time, and as such, more and more recognized. A part of the article is dedicated to the imperative of “continuous present” the modern media forces upon us, that is, the consequences of imperative Now to man's identity and authenticity, as well as his willingness to get socially and politically engaged. The final part of the article considers renewed awareness, the process that could be one of the means of escape from the world of illusions the modern media successfully create and a path of return to the natural, primary reality.

scholarly journals Communication, Negotiation, and Influence at International Climate Change Meetings and Summits

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Wessler ◽  
Julia Lück ◽  
Antal Wozniak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences, officially called Conferences of the Parties (COPs), are the main drivers of media attention to climate change around the world. Even more so than the Rio and Rio+20 “Earth Summits” (1992 and 2012) and the meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the COPs offer multiple access points for the communicative engagement of all kinds of stakeholders. COPs convene up to 20,000 people in one place for two weeks, including national delegations, civil society and business representatives, scientific organizations, representatives from other international organizations, as well as journalists from around the world. While intergovernmental negotiation under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) constitutes the core of COP business, these multifunctional events also offer arenas for civil society mobilization, economic lobbying, as well as expert communication and knowledge transfer. The media image of the COPs emerges as a product of distinct networks of coproduction constituted by journalists, professional communicators from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and national delegations. Production structures at the COPs are relatively globalized with uniform access rules for journalists from all over the world, a few transnational news agencies dominating distribution of both basic information and news visuals, and dense localized interaction between public relations (PR) professionals and journalists. Photo opportunities created by globally coordinated environmental NGOs meet the selection of journalists much better than the visual strategies pursued by delegation spokespeople. This gives NGOs the upper hand in the visual framing contest, whereas in textual framing NGOs are sidelined and national politicians clearly dominate media coverage. The globalized production environment leads to relatively similar patterns of basic news framing in national media coverage of the COPs that reflect overarching ways of approaching the topic: through a focus on problems and victims; a perspective on civil society demands and solutions; an emphasis on conflict in negotiations; or a focus on the benefits of clean energy production. News narratives, on the other hand, give journalists from different countries more leeway in adapting COP news to national audiences’ presumed interests and preoccupations. Even after the adoption of a new global treaty at COP21 in Paris in 2015 that specifies emission reduction targets for all participating countries, the annual UN Climate Change Conferences are likely to remain in the media spotlight. Future research could look more systematically at the impact of global civil society and media in monitoring the national contributions to climate change mitigation introduced in the Paris Agreement and shoring up even more ambitious commitments needed to reach the goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius as compared to pre-industrial levels.

scholarly journals Energy, Consumption, and the Amorality of Energy Law

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Lincoln L. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Energy Law ◽  
Environmental Challenge

As the world turns its attention to Paris this December, all eyes will be on international decisionmakers, including those from the United States, to see if meaningful progress on climate change can finally be made. Climate change, of course, is the great environmental challenge of our time, a challenge that is irrevocably bound up with energy production and consumption. This “super wicked” problem long has been seen as a political, economic, ecological, and social one. However, as Pope Francis’ encyclical makes clear, it is a moral problem as well.

scholarly journals THE POLITICAL IMAGERY IN THE MEDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Raharjo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

Nowadays, the world is really hectic about the word that can be hypnotizing the society, it called “imagery”. Image is belief as everything and able to change the direction or person’s view on something that was never be anything. Something or someone that was nothing, suddenly can be more worth within media action. That is why called the craziness of media, as the way to construct something to be greater.....

Through a fractured gaze: The OECD, the World Bank and transnational care chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne Mahon
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Transnational care chains can be seen as a wicked problem, i.e. one that requires coordination across a range of jurisdictions. Yet international organizations, like other bureaucracies, factor problems. While this is designed to make issues more manageable, it can also inhibit the organization’s ability to grasp, and therefore to deal adequately with, wicked problems. This article examines the way policy research conducted in different parts of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank manages to capture pieces of the chain but is unable to see the connections between them.

scholarly journals Covid-19 Pandemic Through Climate Governance?

2021 ◽  
pp. 001955612110369
Author(s):  
Samar Nanda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Second World ◽  
Catastrophic Impact

Climate change has been the ‘wicked problem’ the world has struggled to address so far. Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected the soft underbelly of global governance by redrawing boundaries and fissures in the existing system. The pandemic is possibly the single biggest event in the post-Second World War period or in the last seventy years to shape and affect human emotion, response and survival instincts. The world has seen catastrophic changes and huge loss of life. There are multiple parallels and differences between the two of the most significant challenges faced by the humanity. Even though climate scientists were harping on the catastrophic impact of climate change for the last four decades, at the broader human consciousness level, the severity of the problem has never sunk into the common psyche. Covid-19 is a vivid example as to how a pathogen-led pandemic can torment and pervade the all-powerful and the highest evolved species on the earth, that is, the mankind. In this backdrop, climate governance and an ideal-type governance typology is being looked at to provide some key insights and possible answers for the future. The concern has been looked through at two levels: personal at the behavioural level and collective at the global-scale levels. Future prescriptions rooted in the current realities have been explored to find a way out of the crisis and the key learning points from the pandemic to face the future with more confidence and certainty.

scholarly journals „From window cleaner to cardinal”: The story of an extraordinary media image

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Renata Rusin Dybalska
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Media Image ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
The Way

The aim of this study is to present the story behind the media image recounting the final months in the life of the former primate of the Czech Republic, cardinal Miloslav Vlk. The analyses presented in this study are grounded in a corpus of texts consisting of 63 press articles published by Czech national dailies between 23 January and 26 March 2017. The image recreated on their basis has become extraordinary not only due to the fact of its very existence within the perception of the world promoted by Czech media, but also because of the way it was constructed and presented to the audience. One must not underestimate the role of the main protagonist of the analyzed image, who became one of its authors himself.  

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