Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20203
Notes:
Pages 81-104 in Anders Hansen (ed.), The mass media and environmental issues. Leicester University Press, Leicester, London, New York. 238 pages, Includes issues in communications with farmers and agricultural agencies after the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Reichel, Christian (author), Martens, Sofia Elena (author), and Harms, Arne (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Indonesia: Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07332
Notes:
Pages 93-118 in Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany. 284 pages.
Authors follow the notion that ignorance is not simply the absence of knowledge, but rather has its own configurations. They use examples to illustrate how interest groups and news media "appropriate and emphasize those ignorance claims that advance and protect their own particular concerns." Examples include Alar pesticide and tobacco.
Findings of a content analysis and interviews with journalists and residents implied that journalists chose and shaped their risk related messages according to their own exigencies and that the influence of newspapers was mitigated by resident distrust and access to other information sources such as personal information networks.
USA: Metcalfe Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Office of Marine Programs, Narragansett, RI.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27894
