It is not easy being green: A critical discourse and frame analysis of environmental advocacy on American television | Zendy

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It is not easy being green: A critical discourse and frame analysis of environmental advocacy on American television

Author(s) -

Alain Omrow Delon

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of media and communication studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2141-2545

DOI - 10.5897/jmcs2018.0609

Subject(s) - frame analysis , framing (construction) , critical discourse analysis , injustice , anthropocentrism , ideology , credibility , discourse analysis , sociology , power (physics) , environmentalism , political science , environmental ethics , media studies , social science , content analysis , politics , law , history , linguistics , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics

Environmental advocacy on American television draws upon utterly exhausted stereotypes, which have become part of a popular discourse. This article serves as an installment in an ongoing project at York University. It analyzes the ideological framing and discursive construction of environmental advocacy, suggesting that such portrayals perpetuate cognitive injustice through the perpetuation of stigmatizing discourses. The power of these discourses reduces the credibility of environmental campaigns, situating discourse in a matrix of power which encourages a culture based on perpetual growth and industrialization, consumption, and anthropocentrism. Key words: Cognitive injustice, critical discourse analysis, frame analysis, environmental advocacy.

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