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    Contents

    Notes on Contributors

    ix

    Foreword

    xiii

    1.

    Introduction

    Heike Graf

    3

    Resonance in News Media

    6

    About this Volume

    9

    References

    19

    2.

    The Environment in Disguise: Insurgency and Digital Media in the Southern Cone

    Virginia Melián

    23

    Background

    26

    Digital Media and Protest

    28

    The Study

    30

    Camouflaged Arguments

    32

    User-Generated Content and Mainstream Media

    34

    Networking beyond the Digital

    36

    Mobile Personal Engagement

    39

    Opportunities for Public Debate

    42

    Civic Engagement and Media Practice

    44

    Conclusion

    48

    References

    51

    3.

    Exploitation or Preservation? Your Choice! Digital Modes of Expressing Perceptions of Nature and the Land

    Coppélie Cocq

    55

    Mining Boom, Land Rights, and Perceptions of the Environment

    57

    YouTube: A Channel for Environmental Activism

    58

    Contesting Narratives

    65

    Media Logic

    67

    Polarisation or Zone of Contact

    71

    Conclusions

    73

    References

    74

    4.

    Natural Ecology Meets Media Ecology: Indigenous Climate Change Activists’ Views on Nature and Media

    Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg

    77

    Introduction

    77

    Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge

    81

    Defining Media Ecology

    83

    Method and Material

    85

    Analysis

    88

    Conclusions

    99

    References

    103

    5.

    The Culture of Nature: The Environmental Communication of Gardening Bloggers

    Heike Graf

    107

    Garden Blogs

    108

    Environmental Communication from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective

    110

    Difference-Theoretical Approach

    110

    The Role of Topics

    114

    Ecology and Gardening in the Mainstream Media

    115

    The Topics of Gardening Blogs

    118

    Consumption: Developing/Refusing a ‘Buyosphere’

    119

    Production: Developing Green Gardening

    126

    Conclusions

    132

    References

    135

    6.

    The Militant Media of Neo-Nazi Environmentalism

    Madeleine Hurd and Steffen Werther

    139

    NPD Media: Party Websites

    142

    Emotions

    143

    The NPD and the Environment

    147

    The Neo-Nazi World of Umwelt & Aktiv

    151

    Nature-Oriented Action: A Cure for National Ills

    156

    Women, Youth, and Germanic Nature: From Umwelt to Aktion

    158

    References

    167

    Index

    173

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