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Extreme Weather and Global Media / edited by Julia Leyda and Diane Negra.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, c2015.Description: vii, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138798786 (hardback)
  • 9781138798793 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.44955163 23 EXT
Contents:
Julia Leyda and Diane Negra: Introduction: extreme weather and global media -- Jon Kraszewski: Televising superstorm Sandy: new configurations of poverty and neoliberalism in extreme weather coverage -- Justin Carville: Eye of the storm: CCTV, surveillance and media representations of extreme weather -- Susanne Leikam: Picturing high water: the 2013 floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado -- Paula Gilligan: "Blowtorch Britain": labor, heat and neo-Victorian values in contemporary UK media -- Annika Olsson: Post-political crisis management: representations of extreme weather in Swedish media -- Max Liboiron: Disaster data and representations of superstorm Sandy -- Sujata Moorti: Mangoes and monsoons: South Asian media coverage of environmental spectacles -- Laura Beltz Imaoka: Rain with a chance of radiation: forecasting local and global risk after Fukushima.
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Short Loan Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 070.44955163 EXT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 147526

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Julia Leyda and Diane Negra: Introduction: extreme weather and global media -- Jon Kraszewski: Televising superstorm Sandy: new configurations of poverty and neoliberalism in extreme weather coverage -- Justin Carville: Eye of the storm: CCTV, surveillance and media representations of extreme weather -- Susanne Leikam: Picturing high water: the 2013 floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado -- Paula Gilligan: "Blowtorch Britain": labor, heat and neo-Victorian values in contemporary UK media -- Annika Olsson: Post-political crisis management: representations of extreme weather in Swedish media -- Max Liboiron: Disaster data and representations of superstorm Sandy -- Sujata Moorti: Mangoes and monsoons: South Asian media coverage of environmental spectacles -- Laura Beltz Imaoka: Rain with a chance of radiation: forecasting local and global risk after Fukushima.

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