Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication

Alison Anderson, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is former Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge journal Environmental Communication and has published widely with over 5,700 citations on Google Scholar. Her published books include Media, Environment and the Network Society (Palgrave, 2014) and Media, Culture and the Environment (Routledge, 1997). She is a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Environmental Communication and the Journal of Environmental Media.Candice Howarth (Ph.D.) is Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her published books include Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2022) and Resilience to Climate Change: Communication, Collaboration and Co-production (Palgrave, 2019). She has published widely with 1,700 citations on Google Scholar. She is Associate Deputy Editor of the journal Climatic Change and sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Communication.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsIntroductionAlison Anderson and Candice HowarthPart one: Conceptual ChallengesChapter 1: Framing in Climate Crisis Communication: An Overview of Research across Frame Production, Media Frames, Audience Frames, and Framing EffectsLars Guenther and Daniela MahlChapter 2: Climate change as a post-political issuePieter MaeseeleChapter 3: Deliberation and Democratic Innovations in the Climate CrisisAndy Yuille and Rebecca WillisChapter 4: Multi-level Miscommunication: on fragmented communications and mismatched framings of climate crisis in multi-level governanceErica Russell and Ian ChristieChapter 5: Talk about it: The role of private-sphere conversations in ecological crisis communicationMarlis Wullenkord and Maria JohanssonPart Two: Methodological ConsiderationsChapter 6: Narrative Analysis: The Ideological Dimensions of Climate DiscourseShondel Nero and Raul LejanoChapter 7: Approaches to Climate Change Visual Research: Methods, Audiences, Practices Christopher RogersChapter 8: Co-production approaches in climate communicationAlessandra PalangeChapter 9: Discourse analysis in climate communicationChris Russill and Ghadah AlrasheedChapter 10: Online Research Methods: Designing Studies of Digital Climate CommunicationsJill HopkePart Three: Communicating Climate Science across CulturesChapter 11: Transnational Climate Justice: Anti-Authoritarian Climate Movements and Digital Media in a (post-)Pandemic WorldHanna MorrisChapter 12: Climate justice in the media: The representation of indigenous communities and climate migrant/refugeesGabriela GalindoChapter 13: Climate change crisis communication in Asia: State of the research field and case studies from India, Indonesia, and MalaysiaRaksha Pandya-Wood, Lucy Richardson, Azliyana Azhari and Jagdish Thaker Chapter 14: Exploring The Multi-Layered Landscape of Climate Change Communication in East Asia: A Social Process PerspectiveJingyuan WuChapter 15: Climate Change Communication Research: A Latin American PerspectiveBruno Takahashi, Iasmim Amiden dos Santos, Maria Fernanda Salas and Carolina Gil PossePart Four: Journalism and News ReportageChapter 16: Climate Change in the Legacy and Online News Media: Reviewing Scholarly Literature on Production, Presentation & ConsumptionMike S. Schäfer and Daniela MahlChapter 17: Voices from the Front-lines of environmental crisis: reporting climate and environment from the Global SouthGabi Mocatta, Nicholas Payne, Shaneka Saville and Kristy HessChapter 18: Climate change communication: Reflections on discursive and performative affordances of social media networksAnoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed HaneefChapter 19: Conspiracies as one of the dangers of online climate change communication: Origins, spread and impactMarianna PoberezhskayaChapter 20: Climate crisis and an injunction to care: Exploring women’s reportage on disasters in AustraliaDeb Anderson and Nicolette SnowdenPart Five: Activism and Social MovementsChapter 21: Digital activism and transnational movements: Climate change protest in the digital ageSusan FordeChapter 22: Climate Movement Message Construction – A Three-pronged Challenge of Collective Identity, Actions, and WordsSol AginChapter 23: Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politicsTânia R. Santos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Anabela CarvalhoChapter 24: Climate Justice Pedagogy: Integrating Science, Activism and CareAlejandro Artiga-Purcell, Anne Marie Todd, Costanza Rampini and Eugene C. CorderoChapter 25: The challenge of being 'trusted messengers' on climate change: Practical strategies for more effective climate change teaching in higher educationOlivia Taylor and Melissa LazenbyPart Six: Audiences and Popular CultureChapter 26: The Walk, the Talk, and the Misdirection: Digitalisation and the Deflection of Climate Crisis in US and UK Screen CultureHunter VaughanChapter 27: Influencer or Opinion leader? Different approaches to defining and identifying environmentally conscious individuals on social mediaYuliya SamofalovaChapter 28: Promoting veganism: The cultural role of celebrities and influencers in the reframing of meat and dairy as a climate issueJulie DoyleChapter 29: Good Natured Climate Comedy to the RescueBeth Osnes and Max BoykoffChapter 30: Communicating Climate Change on Tik TokBrigitte HuberPart Seven: Future DirectionsChapter 31: Sustainable journalism in a crisis: taking agency and authorshipCasey Fung and Franzisca WederChapter 32: Sense-making: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate changeDeclan FahyChapter 33: Where Next for Carbon Literacy? Tackling Climate Misinformation and Addressing Climate (In)JusticeBrenda McNallyIndex