Environmental Communication

Catalog description

Environmental Communication studies how communication, digital forms, and media influence people's environmental views. It explores the circulation of environmental ideas and issues through communication channels and networks in interrelated narrative forms. Key topics include the relationship between corporate agendas, national policies, environmental groups, commodity hunger, the materialism of class conflict, environmental racism, issues of waste management/environmental risk, social justice, community activism, and the environmental impact of AI and blockchain currency. Of central interest is how media representations affect public perceptions of sustainability and resource exploitation, citizens' ability to use media for environmental mobilization, and the framing of modern lifestyles.