Test 1 Flashcards
The amount of space available for a newspaper or TV news story
News hole
The economic interest of media owners
Political Economy
A key historical period in US environmentalism that focused on wilderness as an American asset
Nationalism
A realm of influence created when individuals engage others in communication
Public Sphere
Metaphors, Synecdoche, and Irony are examples of
Rhetorical or Literary Tropes
The essential quality of character of something
Nature
The intertwined relationship between global warming and social injustice
Climate Justice
According to Pezzullo and Cox, _____ is a symbolic action
Human Communication
The pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world
Environmental Communication
A discourse that has gained broad or taken-for-granted status in a culture
Dominant Discourse
The democratic inclusion of people and communities in the decisions that affect their health and well-being
Environmental Justice
The news media tell us what to think about
Agenda Setting Theory
Egoistic, Altruistic, and Biospheric are examples of
Environmental News Value
A conflict or disagreement that signals a recognition that there is a limit to a widely shared idea (status quo)
Antagonism
A pattern of knowledge and power communicated through linguistic and nonlinguistic human expression
Discourse
1962 book by Rachel Carson about DDT that sparked the modern environmental movement
Silent Spring
Editors and managers decide what stories get covered
Gatekeeping
The idea that media messages are communicated as stories rather than facts
Narrative Framing
Argued for the maintenance of certain wilderness areas and the protection of them from harm
US “preservation” movement
Where the deepwater horizon oil spill occurred
Gulf of Mexico
The norm of balanced reporting of information, and shows that the prestige press’s adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage
Balances Bias
A controversy that falsely argued that emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy, scientists manipulated data and attempted to suppress critics
ClimateGate
Prominence, Timeliness, Proximity, Magnitude, Conflict, Oddity, Emotional Impact
Newsworthiness
Cognitive maps or patterns of interpretation that people use to understand their understanding of reality
Communication Frames
The gap between intentions and fulfillment of those intentions
Attitude behavior gap (green gap)
According to the “six americas” study by Yale University and George Mason University, Americans are becoming more concerned about
Global Warming
Technical demands of topic stress the reporting process
Challenge of media reporting risk
Infographics, search engines, and wayfinding information such as a map or escape plans are all examples of what
Information design
Hazard + Outrage =
Risk
False information that is purposefully spread to mislead people
Disinformation
The evaluation of the degree of harm or danger from some condition such as exposure to a toxic chemical
Risk assessment
Our brains love looking at
Pictures or Visuals
Raw data visualized in a way that permits the viewer to make their own conclusion
Data visualization
An event designed to challenge the status quo
Mind bomb
A word or phrase (or visual) that stirs vivid impressions involving the listeners most basic values
Condensation symbol
Nurturing doubt in the public’s perception of scientific claims and thereby delaying calls for action
Trope of uncertainty
Fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent
Fake news
Something that is obvious, visible, and coming right at you with large potential impact and highly probable consequence
White Rhino
Involving the affected public in assessing risk and designing risk communication campaigns
Cultural model of risk communication
A campaign that urges consumers not to buy a particular product/service
Boycott
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
Media Frame
An act of hearing and seeing oral and written evidence through first-hand experience
Witnessing
A move to democracy to “rule by experts”
Technocracy
An industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1950s
BPA
Judgement of harms or danger that a society or specific populations are willing to accept or not
Acceptable risk
Discussion groups in the research that produced the 7 principles of CC communication favored ‘authentic’ images over ____
Staged photos
Organized opposition to climate change action in the United States
Denialism
Ed Maibach’s 5 talking points for CC communication are : experts agree, its real, its us, its bad, and _____
its solvable
Any public or private communication that informs individuals about the existence, nature, form, severity, or acceptability of risk
Risk communication
The large-scale nature of risks and potential for irreversible threats to human life from modernization
Risk society
