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The coronavirus crisis as tipping point: communicating the environment in a time of pandemic

journal contribution
posted on 2020-11-01, 00:00 authored by Gabi MocattaGabi Mocatta, Erin HawleyErin Hawley
This essay examines media and environment during the pandemic through the conceptual lens of environmental communication. We take the pulse of environmental communication under COVID-19, noting that while the quantity of media coverage on key environmental issues has fallen during the blanket coverage of the pandemic, COVID-19 has acted on multiple levels as a moment of discursive change in environmental communication. We contend that mediatised discourse on the environment during the pandemic has offered new insights, and an opportunity for a reset in environmental understandings, including a new consciousness of global connectedness in environmental responsibility, and an opportunity to improve publics’ environmental literacy. *** This essay is intended for the extraordinary issue, on Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication ***

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Journal

Media International Australia

Volume

177

Issue

1

Article number

ARTN 1329878X20950030

Pagination

119 - 124

Publisher

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

ISSN

1329-878X

eISSN

2200-467X

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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