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Doherty, Richard J.

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The alienation of humans from nature: Media and environmental discourse.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The alienation of humans from nature: Media and environmental discourse./
Author:	Doherty, Richard J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3737640
ISBN:	9781339272511

The alienation of humans from nature: Media and environmental discourse.
Doherty, Richard J.

The alienation of humans from nature: Media and environmental discourse. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.

Environmental problems are discouraging. Extensive and growing media consumption in the U.S. may be one of a few reasons. Communication constructs how people experience and understand nature, and corporate ownership of media influences the content (Beder, 2004). What does this discouragement look like in the news? Nature is often made the culprit that impinges on people identified as consumers. Added environmental responsibility for the "green" consumer can overwhelm them, and negative connotations associated with environmentalist suggest people avoid that label. And the odds seem to be in nature's favor, when the individual is pitted against such forces as El Nino, and global warming. Technology, often the savior, produces additional conflict, problems, and cost. War metaphors and rhetoric in the fight over resources raises concerns over other uses. Polls show U.S. Americans becoming more fearful of environmental problems, but not changing their consumption patterns to help solve the problems. Environmental injustices can result from communication practices, even war and violence. All of these aspects point to power---who has authority, how they use it in dominant discourses, and what responses it produces. It is a social fact that people are discouraged about the environment.

ISBN: 9781339272511Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

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520 $a Environmental problems are discouraging. Extensive and growing media consumption in the U.S. may be one of a few reasons. Communication constructs how people experience and understand nature, and corporate ownership of media influences the content (Beder, 2004). What does this discouragement look like in the news? Nature is often made the culprit that impinges on people identified as consumers. Added environmental responsibility for the "green" consumer can overwhelm them, and negative connotations associated with environmentalist suggest people avoid that label. And the odds seem to be in nature's favor, when the individual is pitted against such forces as El Nino, and global warming. Technology, often the savior, produces additional conflict, problems, and cost. War metaphors and rhetoric in the fight over resources raises concerns over other uses. Polls show U.S. Americans becoming more fearful of environmental problems, but not changing their consumption patterns to help solve the problems. Environmental injustices can result from communication practices, even war and violence. All of these aspects point to power---who has authority, how they use it in dominant discourses, and what responses it produces. It is a social fact that people are discouraged about the environment.
520 $a Critical-cultural and media studies, provide ideas to address social and environmental problems through communication and provide three paths for understanding; critical theory addresses power and domination; symbolic interaction addresses meaning making from social interaction; and rhetoric, narrative and discourse address how ideas are used in stories to persuade people. These fields emerge from the work of the Chicago school on the interactions of society and mass media, and the Frankfurt school (with roots in Marxism) on the legitimacy which commercial media provide those in power that maintains inequalities and injustice. Critical analysis of media stories that relate to the environment, expose a bigger world than that described by those in power. Challenging that discourse can offer justice to those with little to no power or voice. It can also propose alternatives to alleviate inequality.
520 $a Theory of environmental communication (Milstein, 2009) bridges three areas: the material-symbolic of real problems communicated through language; the mediated human-nature relationship that represents nature in particular ways; and applied activist theory which exposes problematic representations and offers better alternatives.
520 $a Prior research shows most environmental discourse is anthropocentric, based on industrial ideology, encourages consumption and domesticates and technologizes nature. Discourse on the environment occurs in all areas of culture but most prominently in news as events, ideas, and attitudes, and business as markets, products, and services.
520 $a The critique of media texts and power relations of people can best be accomplished with critical discourse analysis. For the studies in this research discourse-historical analysis (Reisgel and Wodak, 2009) is combined with an ontological assessment of the environmental discourse (Dryzek, 2013), and observations of contradictions in the texts (Hodge, 2012). Discourse-historical analysis focuses on the discourse (as topic, perspective, and argument), the text (as part of the discourse and the communication/language analyzed), and context (as multi-level setting made of the language, discourse, situation, history, and politics). The critical aspect unmasks hierarchy, dominance and control in relationships and shows how they are maintained, to expose opportunities to contest and reconfigure power.
520 $a The main questions of the studies are how do news and business depict the nature-human relationship, how do the power relationships involved create injustice and inequality, and how might the dominant discourse alienate humans from nature? The second study of discourse surrounding key points in the development of the consumer market for Global Positioning looks to print and on-line sources of business communication. With roots in the U. S. military, and steeped in the injustices of war, consumers adopted GPS as the way to navigate around town or around the world. Marketers, consumer guides and analysts tell stories about the nature-human relationship to sell GPS to consumers.
520 $a The examples of people being discouraged with nature and the environment are everywhere. When news isn't about the latest environmental disaster, the underlying stories for the mostly urban citizens are formed by corporate and consumer culture aiming to sell products and make a profit. Media in these studies maintain the dominant social paradigm of economic growth, covering up environmental concerns and depict nature as a foe at a time when we need to understand and appreciate the earth. It is time to change the way media depict the human relationship with nature because it distances people with technology, it burdens people emotionally, it persuades them their efforts are futile, and dissuades people from engaging with nature through discourses of individual responsibility, scientific and economic progress, and the human nature-divide. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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