Overview
- Investigates the under-explored relationship between children, media, and the environment
- Tracks the proliferation of environmental media for young audiences
- Explores the construction of ‘childhood’ and ‘nature’ in children’s media texts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the nexus between children, media, and nature during a time of planetary crisis marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. In this time of planetary emergency, children have become an increasingly visible part of conversations about the human/nature relationship – they have also become an important market for environmentally-themed media content. Indeed, recent years have seen a proliferation of environmental texts, products, and narratives for young people: children are recognised and addressed as audiences for environmental content across a range of media including news, films, television programs, magazines, videogames, and transmedia franchises. Through analysis of a range of case studies, this book examines the construction of children as green audiences, the intersection between media and environmental literacies, and the mainstreaming of children’s voices in environmental communication. The book will appeal to readers with an interest in children’s media and the industry imperatives that shape the production of children’s culture as well as to students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of environmental communication.
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About the author
Erin Hawley is a Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Communication for Children
Book Subtitle: Media, Young Audiences, and the More-Than-Human World
Authors: Erin Hawley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04691-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04690-2Published: 06 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04693-3Published: 07 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04691-9Published: 05 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 237
Topics: Environmental Communication, Youth Culture, Education, general