Climate Crisis and Communication: Reflections on Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
Author(s) -
Robert A. Hackett
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
media and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 2183-2439
DOI - 10.17645/mac.v3i1.304
Subject(s) - capitalism , narrative , sociology , climate change , political science , political economy , social science , environmental ethics , politics , law , philosophy , literature , art , ecology , biology
This commentary suggests that Naomi Klein’s influential book This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate, implicitly points to the influence of media institutions on societal response to the crisis, yet does not analyze them explicitly. Communication scholars could help fill that gap. Conversely however, Klein’s work suggests productive avenues for media researchers to explore, including a fresh take on the relationship between climate crisis, communication and capitalism as a system, and the potential for alternative media to challenge dominant cultural narratives
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