Social Media and Oil in Southern California

Jason L. Jarvis is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Naturalizing Derrick: Postcards from Los AngelesChapter 3: Dreamland: Petroleum PostcardsChapter 4: Youtube Butterflies: El SegundoChapter 5: Soccer and Greenwashing in Los AngelesChapter 6: Conclusion: Greenwashed, Not GreenWorks CitedAbout the Author

“Jason L. Jarvis works at the intersection of environmental and visual rhetorics to provide important insights into the functions of advertising campaigns by the petroleum industry and their role in obscuring environmental impacts and harms in Los Angeles. Additionally, the book provides astute observations and clear arguments that track the evolution of social media from postcards to YouTube as it simultaneously lays out the consequences for greenwashing oil production and refining in Southern California. For anyone interested in environmental or visual rhetorics this is an essential read.”