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1
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The amount of space available for a newspaper or TV news story

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News hole

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2
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The economic interest of media owners

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Political Economy

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3
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A key historical period in US environmentalism that focused on wilderness as an American asset

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Nationalism

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4
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A realm of influence created when individuals engage others in communication

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Public Sphere

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Metaphors, Synecdoche, and Irony are examples of

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Rhetorical or Literary Tropes

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6
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The essential quality of character of something

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Nature

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7
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The intertwined relationship between global warming and social injustice

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Climate Justice

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8
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According to Pezzullo and Cox, _____ is a symbolic action

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Human Communication

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9
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The pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world

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Environmental Communication

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10
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A discourse that has gained broad or taken-for-granted status in a culture

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Dominant Discourse

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The democratic inclusion of people and communities in the decisions that affect their health and well-being

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Environmental Justice

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12
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The news media tell us what to think about

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Agenda Setting Theory

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13
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Egoistic, Altruistic, and Biospheric are examples of

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Environmental News Value

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14
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A conflict or disagreement that signals a recognition that there is a limit to a widely shared idea (status quo)

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Antagonism

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15
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A pattern of knowledge and power communicated through linguistic and nonlinguistic human expression

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Discourse

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16
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1962 book by Rachel Carson about DDT that sparked the modern environmental movement

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Silent Spring

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17
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Editors and managers decide what stories get covered

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Gatekeeping

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The idea that media messages are communicated as stories rather than facts

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Narrative Framing

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Argued for the maintenance of certain wilderness areas and the protection of them from harm

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US “preservation” movement

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20
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Where the deepwater horizon oil spill occurred

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Gulf of Mexico

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The norm of balanced reporting of information, and shows that the prestige press’s adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage

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Balances Bias

22
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A controversy that falsely argued that emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy, scientists manipulated data and attempted to suppress critics

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ClimateGate

23
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Prominence, Timeliness, Proximity, Magnitude, Conflict, Oddity, Emotional Impact

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Newsworthiness

24
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Cognitive maps or patterns of interpretation that people use to understand their understanding of reality

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Communication Frames

25
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The gap between intentions and fulfillment of those intentions

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Attitude behavior gap (green gap)

26
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According to the “six americas” study by Yale University and George Mason University, Americans are becoming more concerned about

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Global Warming

27
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Technical demands of topic stress the reporting process

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Challenge of media reporting risk

28
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Infographics, search engines, and wayfinding information such as a map or escape plans are all examples of what

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Information design

29
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Hazard + Outrage =

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Risk

30
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False information that is purposefully spread to mislead people

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Disinformation

31
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The evaluation of the degree of harm or danger from some condition such as exposure to a toxic chemical

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Risk assessment

32
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Our brains love looking at

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Pictures or Visuals

33
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Raw data visualized in a way that permits the viewer to make their own conclusion

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Data visualization

34
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An event designed to challenge the status quo

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Mind bomb

35
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A word or phrase (or visual) that stirs vivid impressions involving the listeners most basic values

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Condensation symbol

36
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Nurturing doubt in the public’s perception of scientific claims and thereby delaying calls for action

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Trope of uncertainty

37
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Fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent

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Fake news

38
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Something that is obvious, visible, and coming right at you with large potential impact and highly probable consequence

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White Rhino

39
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Involving the affected public in assessing risk and designing risk communication campaigns

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Cultural model of risk communication

40
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A campaign that urges consumers not to buy a particular product/service

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Boycott

41
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A rhetorical constraint that shapes or inhibits the making of news that require journalists simplify or make maps of the world to communicate their stories

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Media Frame

42
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An act of hearing and seeing oral and written evidence through first-hand experience

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Witnessing

43
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A move to democracy to “rule by experts”

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Technocracy

44
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An industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1950s

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BPA

45
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Judgement of harms or danger that a society or specific populations are willing to accept or not

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Acceptable risk

46
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Discussion groups in the research that produced the 7 principles of CC communication favored ‘authentic’ images over ____

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Staged photos

47
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Organized opposition to climate change action in the United States

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Denialism

48
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Ed Maibach’s 5 talking points for CC communication are : experts agree, its real, its us, its bad, and _____

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its solvable

49
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Any public or private communication that informs individuals about the existence, nature, form, severity, or acceptability of risk

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Risk communication

50
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The large-scale nature of risks and potential for irreversible threats to human life from modernization

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Risk society

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