Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of<i>An Inconvenient Truth</i>

Rosteck, Thomas; Frentz, Thomas S.

doi:10.1080/00335630802621086

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“…For studies that have looked at texts beyond the news, however, the picture becomes more complicated, as they tend to develop discrete analytical categories for the individual texts they examine and with references to frames, where made, typically less systematic or couched within news frame analysis techniques or terminology (e.g. Rosteck and Frentz, 2009;Salvador and Norton, 2011). Such studies have tended to use what has been referred to as a "hermeneutic approach" which involves "providing an interpretative account of media texts linking up frames with broader cultural elements" (Matthes and Kohring, 2008, p. 259).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, Rosteck and Frentz (2009) identify An Inconvenient Truth as clearly containing a Jeremiad structure with calls to action to avert the impending apocalypse structurally underpinned by presenting Al Gore as the archetypal "hero" of the monomyth, whose life story is a template for audiences to follow.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Day After Tomorrow (Salvador and Norton, 2011), the non-fiction bestseller A Civil Action (Button, 2002), and award-winning documentaries like Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Rosteck and Frentz, 2009) Bakir (2010) notes that some of this research "suggests that it is through fiction, rather than journalism, that the media most thoroughly contemplate future challenges that risks might pose, including what happens when things go wrong, so enabling us to explore moral, ethical and social consequences of certain actions" (p. 9). Similarly, in order to further explore media representations of environmental risk and natural disasters this article specifically examines factual entertainment television programs on natural hazards and extreme weather.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Framing Environmental Risks and Natural Disasters in Factual Entertainment Television

Campbell¹

2013

Environmental Communication

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Abstract:This article examines the framing of environmental risks and natural disasters in factual entertainment television programs of the early 2000s, a hybrid form combining techniques from documentary with techniques such as dramatic reconstructions and computer generated imagery from entertainment genres. Using qualitative frame analysis, the article examines a range of factual entertainment television programs' framing of environmental risk and natural disasters in terms of their attitudes, representation of human participants, and visual composition. The article considers the similarities and differences in the framing of natural disasters as factual entertainment compared to the framing of natural disasters in news, documentary and fiction film. The article argues that such programs offer representational frames both consonant with and distinct from other media, and concludes that they problematically offer a predominantly fatalistic response to environmental risk, constructing natural disasters as voyeuristic spectacles for vicarious entertainment.

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Framing Environmental Risks and Natural Disasters in Factual Entertainment Television

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2013

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“…For instance in western civilization, we cannot think of culture without considering the context in which products and goods are produced, mediated, and consumed over time. Thus, aquaculture as culture exists in relationship to broader societal discourses that evolve across different scales, from interpersonal and group relationships to mainstream media discourses (Bell-Jordan 2008;Fiske 1987;Rosteck and Frentz 2009).…”

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The Socio-economic Dimensions of Offshore Aquaculture in a Multi-use Setting

Krause¹,

Mikkelsen

2017

Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

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Decision-making within the marine realm is a complex process, which endorses ecological, societal and economic needs and they must therefore be managed jointly. Much of the formerly "free oceans" is nowadays subject to intensive uses, thus making the need to optimise the management of the resources within a multifunctional and multi-use(r) context apparent. The high competition for functions and uses of inshore and nearshore waters has given strong incentives to investigate the opportunities of moving industrial activities offshore. The current raise of offshore aquaculture is one prominent example of this. However, our understanding of the social dimensions and effects of offshore aquaculture is yet incomplete. We need to consider also how different multi-use settings for offshore aquaculture affect the socio-economic outcomes on various levels. During the development of offshore aquaculture, this multifunctional perspective has emerged especially for the combination with offshore wind farms. This synergy of two different stakeholders, the so-called multifunctional utilisation of marine areas, can be viewed as a new concept by the implementation of integrated, consensus-based resource planning conditions. We suggest a typology of social dimensions of marine aquaculture, based on the literature of "traditional" nearshore aquaculture. Based on this typology we discuss the current level of knowledge on the socio-economic dimensions of multi-use offshore aquaculture and point to further research needs.

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“…Environmental rhetoric scholarship has contributed to conversations discussing the ineffectiveness of current environmental discourse (Bruner and Oeschlaeger, 1994;Cooper, 1996;Shellenberger and Nordhaus, 2004;Rosteck and Frentz, 2009;Johnson, 2009), blaming its failure on (among other things) its inability to foster collaboration between environmental advocacy groups or to create appeals for wide audiences. The field has also explored how government texts, as the sole source of environmental legislation and policy development, often fail to acknowledge or incorporate knowledge other than "experts" and to support dialogue with stakeholders (Killingsworth and Palmer, 1992;Katz and Miller, 1996;Waddell, 1996;Patterson and Lee, 1997;Ingham, 2000;Karis 2000;Dayton, 2000;Paretti, 2003).…”

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Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case ofAn Inconvenient Truth

Cited by 52 publications

References 3 publications

Framing Environmental Risks and Natural Disasters in Factual Entertainment Television

Framing Environmental Risks and Natural Disasters in Factual Entertainment Television

The Socio-economic Dimensions of Offshore Aquaculture in a Multi-use Setting

Rachel Carson and nature as resource, object and spirit : identification, consubstantiality, and multiple stakeholders in the environmental rhetoric of the conservation in action series.

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