week 3

Question 1

risk society (Ulrich Beck)

Answer 1

how modern society organizes in response to a risk; obsession with risk and how to overcome it or protect us from it –> a way to talk about and give meaning to certain phenomena of symbolic politics of CCC

Question 2

2 kinds of risks:

4S model in a risk society:

Answer 2

1. terrorism
2. climate scientists
3. sex
4. scandal
5. sensation
6. sports

Question 3

cultural resonance

Answer 3

widely held beliefs in a society; relating climate change –> belief in scientific authority

Question 4

ecological citizenship
salience
self-efficacy

Answer 4

changing private behaviors to promote public good, engage in a collective push for change
salience - sense of urgency/recognizing the importance of the issue, but powerlessness
self-efficacy - encourages people to act

Question 5

How CC can be visualized, 2 concerns

2 visual rhetoric of CCC

Answer 5

1. pragmatic concerns: consequences of CC that are visual; pictures of existing issues
2. ideological concerns: consequences that exist in your mind; we know about the paradigm of global warming even if we can’t literally see it
3. visualization of nature, crisis - iconic, symbolic; –> salience
4. visualization of the relations and definitions - science, politics and protest –> self-efficacy

Question 6

mediatization of climate change

Answer 6

fostering political-ecological citizenship and constructing the climate change as global crisis through media; visualization –> CCC (climate change communication)`

Question 7

aesthetic framing

Answer 7

using beautiful images of the environment when producing media campaigns in order to represent an environment in need of protection; can make non-visible problems go unseen

Question 8

neoliberal society

Answer 8

capitalistic market with minimal state intervention; market-oriented reform policies; in there is economic growth the society will reach a certain point of evolution

Question 9

doxa

Answer 9

common belief