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| Created when individuals engage others in communication- through conversation, argument, debate or questioning- about subjects of shared concern that affect the wider community |
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| Educates, persuades, alerts, mobilizes etc |
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| Helps to constitute or compose representations of environmental problems |
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| Pattern of knowledge and power communicated through linguistic and non-linguistic human expression |
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| We need to set land aside for its own sake; intrinsic value to wilderness, ecosystems etc apart from their benefit to people |
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| Trying to extract resources that will serve people; preserving forests so you can protect and use them (Appalachicola forest used for logging) |
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| The greatest good for the greatest number |
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| Using physical acts of protests |
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| The study of how an organism relates with its exterior world; Ernst Haeckel |
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| An organisms ability to adapt and persist at the same time |
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| Resources accessible to all people that are not privately own (air, water, the Earth itself) |
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| The ways any given medium creates and limits conditions of possibility. |
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| Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) |
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| Studies how a product’s life develops from cradle to grave. Raw material extraction, production, distribution, use, disposal. |
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| 5 elements: Regulation, production, consumption, representation and identity |
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| The study of how various media interact with each other and people. |
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| Principles of Environmental Justice |
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| The fundamental right to political, economic, cultural, and environmental self-determination of all peoples |
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| A global movement that recognizes the intertwined relationship between global warming and social injustice |
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| This focuses on the cultural sources that construct our perception of the world |
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| This focuses on purposeful and consequential efforts to influence society's attitudes and behavior through communication (public debate, protests, advertising & other modes of symbolic action) |
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| The means by which we socially represent objects or people and therefore know the world, including the natural world |
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| When a discourse gains broad or taken-for-granted status in a culture or when its meanings help to legitimize certain practices |
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| A word or phrase that stirs vivid impressions involving the listener's most basic values |
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| Illustrate numerical data through an image |
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| Central organizing themes that connect the different elements of a news story into a coherent whole |
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| This idea refers to the influence of economic interests and/or political agenda of the owners to sell papers or gain viewers/listeners based on the news content of their media sources. |
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| The ways in which media organize facts of phenomena through stories to aid audiences' understanding |
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| A theory that assumes that repeated exposure to a set of messages is likely to produce agreement in an audience w/opinions expressed in those messages |
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| The narrowing of differences toward a cultural norm |
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| Media may cultivate an anti-environmental attitude through a lack of environmental images or by diverting viewers to other non-environmental stories |
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| The media's erasure of the importance of a theme by the indirect or passive de-emphasizing of that theme |
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| The narrowing of differences toward a cultural norm |
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| A perceived authority or credibility as a source of knowledge |
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| The Precautionary Principle |
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| • When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the env., precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. The proponent of an activity, and not the public, should bear the burden of proof. |
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| Necessitated by a worsening ecological disturbance with irreversible effects on species and ecosystems |
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| Androcentric Bias of data |
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| Based on the assumption that the person being exposed to danger is an average adult white male |
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| Cultural Theory of Risk Assessment |
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| Rejects an individualist, rationalist notion of risk inn favor of one that believes our perceptions of risk are informed by cultural values |
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