Climate Change

This is a guest lecture by Therese Håkonsen Karlseng held as part of the course Media and Politics in the fall semester 2013. Since completing her thesis on German Climate Policy, Therese has worked with energy and environmental issues as a strategic advisor to the Hedmark County Council, political advisor in the Norwegian Parliament, as well as having worked in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

Goals of learning

• What is a climate sceptic or - denier?
• How is climate change communicated through the media?
• How do you explain that substantial parts of the public opinion do not prioritize the climate change issue?
• Why is the international political system perhaps inappropriate for handling the climate issue?

You can watch Therese presenting the county climate report here on Norwegian broadcasting or browse through her presentation from the lecture below.

Usefuk links

• Aupers, S. (2012). “Trust No One”: Modernization, Paranoia and Conspiracy Culture.
• Cottle, S. (2009). Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change.
• Nisbet, M. C. (2009). Communicating Climate Change: Why Frames Matter for Public Engagement.
• Gore, Al & Guggenheim, D. (2006). An Inconvenient Truth.
• Dan Miller: A REALLY Inconvenient Truth (Video)
• Baldegg, K. C.-M. von. (2013, August 12). Who’s to Blame for Climate Change? The Atlantic.
• Beck, C. (n.d.). How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. grist.
• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. (2013a). An Inconvenient Truth. Carnegie Council.
• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. (2013b, July 8). Ethics on Film: Discussion of “The Island President.” Carnegie Council.
• Cook, J. (2010, June 22). How many climate scientists are climate skeptics? Skeptical Science.
• Feldman, L. (2013). Breaking Boundaries| Cloudy with a Chance of Heat Balls: The Portrayal of Global Warming on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. International Journal of Communication, 7(0), 22.
• FORA.tv Exclusive Interview with Lord Monckton @ COP15. (Video).
• Global Governance Monitor. (2011). The Global Climate Change Regime. Council on Foreign Relations.
• Haas, P. M. (2012, August 16). The Road From Rio. Foreign Affairs.
• Harrison, K. (2009). How “inconvenient” is Al Gore’s climate message? M/C Journal, 12(4).
• Hickman, L. (2013, March 1). Climate sceptics “capture” the Bloggies’ science category. the Guardian.
• Hoffmann, T. (2013, June 6). Vil ha mer og bedre klimadekning på TV. forskning.no.
• Lahn, B. (2013). Kven tek ansvar for klimaendringane? Hvor hender det?, (19).
• Lomborg, B. (2012, July 1). Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now. Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2012).
• Loxton, D. (2009, December 22). What, If Anything, Can Skeptics Say About Science? Skepticblog.
• Marom, Y. (2013, July 30). Confessions of a climate change denier. openDemocracy.
• Mathismoen, O. (2013, August 21). Umulig å stanse klimaendringene. Aftenposten.
• Molinari, F., & Porquier, E. (2011). Social Networking on Climate Change. JeDEM 3(1): 118-135, 2011
• Nyborg, K. (2012, February 2). De små klimaavtalene. Aftenposten.
• Paasche, Ø. (2013, September 6). The IPCC and new climate paths. openDemocracy.
• Potter, E. (2009). Calculating interests: climate change and the politics of life. M/C Journal, 12(4).
• Prestrud, P. (2013, June 20). Misvisende, feilinformert og kunnskapsfattig. Aftenposten.
• Prestrud, P. (n.d.). Kritikk av Klimapanelet og klimaforskningen uten substans. Samtiden.
• Rahmstorf, S. (2013, September 18). The Known Knowns of Climate Change. Project Syndicate.
• Rosen, R. J. (2013, August 2). The Climate Is Set to Change “Orders of Magnitude” Faster Than at Any Other Time in the Past 65 Million Years. The Atlantic.
• Santini, J.-L. (2013, September 20). UN climate report will not sway US deniers. Yahoo News.
• Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated. (Video).
• Sheppard, K. (2012, November). Climate Deniers. Foreign Policy.
• Simpson, C. (2011). Communicating Uncertainty about Climate Change: The Scientists’ Dilemma. M/C Journal, 14(1).
• Skeptical Science. (2013a). Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says. Skeptical Science.
• Skeptical Science. (n.d.). Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined. Skeptical Science.
• Solhjell, B. V. (2012, December 11). Slik blei Kyoto 2 til. Aftenposten.
• Sourcewatch. (2013, September 21). Global warming skeptics. Sourcewatch.
• ForaTV: Story Wars: Narratives On Carbon Pollution. (Video).
• Uldam, J., & Askanius, T. (2013). Online Civic Cultures? Debating Climate Change Activism on YouTube. International Journal of Communication, 7.
• Ward, B. (2013, June 11). Climate Change by the Numbers. Project Syndicate.

YouTube Playlist

4.0. Conclusion

Goals of learning from this lesson

• Connect the dots from previous lessons

The lecture

The final lecture presentation in my course on Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College can be browsed through below. As this is more of a summing up, the title may be slightly misleading.




Literature

• Everything on the book list and list of articles

3.4. Cosmopolitics

Goals of learning from this lesson

• What is compassion and "compassion fatigue"?
• How may the media development in general contribute to global compassion (and cosmopolitanism)?
• Why do some disasters and other events of suffering end up on top of the mainstream news agenda, while others are pushed down?
• In what way may the internet affect the international news agenda?

The lecture

Browse through the presentation from my course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College.

 


The literature

• Chouliaraki, L. (2008). The Mediation of Suffering and the Vision of a Cosmopolitan Public. 21p. *
• Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 3. 23p.

Watch relevant videos

Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism

Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism

Ethan Zuckerman: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

Watch more videos on the YouTube playlist



Useful links

• Aale, P. K. (2014, July 15). Slik kan du bidra til en slavefri tomatbransje.
• Abrahamsen, R. (2014, May 23). Before we get carried away – politics, security and Nigeria’s missing girls.
• Brannen, K. (2014, August 15). Countries in Crisis at Record High.
• Farrell, N. (2014). From Activist to Entrepreneur: Peace One Day and the Changing Persona of the Social Campaigner. M/C Journal, 17(3).
• Gbikpi, N. (2013, September 13). Whose “Mission”? Celebrities, voice and refugees.
• Haskell, J. (2013, December 12). Steven Van Zandt on How “Sun City” Helped Break Apartheid.
• Kascak, L., & DasGupta, S. (2014, June 19). #InstagrammingAfrica: The Narcissism of Global Voluntourism.
• Mary Joyce. (2013, June 13). Video Advocacy Styles. News & Politics.
• Meier, P. (2013). iRevolution.
• Solomon, D. (n.d.). Steven Van Zandt Tells The Story Of “Sun City” And Fighting Apartheid In South Africa.
• Wolfe, L. (2014, August 1). Attention Deficit Disorder. Foreign Policy.

Kafranbel - det syriske opprørets kreative sentrum

Kafranbel, en by i det nordvestlige Syria, har blitt det kreative sentrum i opprøret mot president Bashar al-Assad - og nå også motstanden mot ISIS. I følge Raed Fares, en av byens sentrale medieaktivister, har de valgt å uttrykke seg på engelsk via sosiale medier for å nå et internasjonalt publikum.

Det helt spesielle ved mediebruken deres er bruken av satire og referanser til ikoner som er godt kjent internasjonalt (Alien, Tatt av vinden, Game of Thrones, Ringenes Herre ....). Dette dukker opp både på posters og videoer som formidles via sosiale medier.

Du kan se flere av posterne deres samlet opp hos Foreign Policy eller gå rett til deres egen hjemmeside for å lese og se mer. De lager også video'er, som regel postet på Raed Fares' kanal på YouTube.  Videoen under er blitt spesielt mye kjent for sin framstilling av "den syriske revolusjonen på 3 minutter"

Syria Untold er på mange måter mediehub'en for opposisjonen og de kaller Kafranbel for revolusjonens samvittighet. Omtale finner du ellers en rekke steder som f.eks.:

• Nachawati, L. (2014, September 26). Kafranbel: a paradigm of creative storytelling (Part 1/2).
• Hanano, A. (2013, October 18). Rising Up and Rising Down. Foreign Policy.
• Stack, L. (2014, January 11). Syria’s Conflict Told Through a Caustic Wit.

3.3. Ethnocentrism

Goals of learning from this lesson:

• What is ethnocentrism and stereotyping?
• How are the relation between the global and local best captured?
• Why are mainstream media's role as nation builders challenged by migration?
• When is it reasonable to refer to diaspora?

The lecture

Browse throught the latest lecture presentation from my course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College

 


The literature:

• Chan, J. (2005). Global media and the dialectics of the global. 5p. *
• Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 10. 20p.
• Meyrowitz, J. (2005). The rise of glocality: New senses of place and identity in the global village. 10p. *

Watch relevant videos

Edward Said On Orientalism

Nollywood: The third biggest film industry, but no cinemas

Jack Shaheen: Reel Bad Arabs (Documentary)

 
Watch more from this YouTube playlist




Useful links:

• Alford, M. (2009). A propaganda model for Hollywood. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 6(2), 144–156.
• Barth, M. (2013, May 8). Det store norske helteeposet. Rushprint.
• Berger, J. M. (2012, November 21). Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan. Foreign Policy.
• Biskind, P. (2008). The Vietnam Oscars. Vanity Fair, (March).
• Boot, M. (2013, January 4). The CIA’s Big Year on the Big Screen. Commentary Magazine.
• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. (2013, April 3). Ethics on Film: Discussion of “Argo.” Carnegie Council.
• Cha, J. (2013). The Fiendish Plots of Dr. Fu Manchu in the Twenty-First Century: The Yellow Peril in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy. Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 12(1).
• ChinaFile. (2013, April 25). Can Hollywood Romance Chinese Film-Goers? The Atlantic.
• Christian, A. J. (2013). The Black TV Crisis and the Next Generation. Flow, 18(5).
• Cohen, A. (2011, March 31). Putin and Medvedev Go to Hollywood. The National Interest.
• Folch, C. (2013, June 13). Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation. The Atlantic.
• Friedersdorf, C. (2013, June 28). A Sneak Peek at the American TV News Network Al Jazeera Is Building. The Atlantic.
• Galloway, S. (2012, November). Hollywood. Foreign Policy.
• Goldman, L. (2013, February 22). Israel’s Script Turns Sour. Foreign Policy.
• Haglund, D. (2012, October 12). How Accurate Is Argo? Brow Beat.
• He, A. (2013, September 18). “Asian Eye” Surgery and Media Racism. The Atlantic.
• Jones, N. (2012, October 18). The True Spy Story Behind Argo. Foreign Policy.
• Kang, I. (2013, March 20). Hollywood’s Changing Its Movies to Appease the Chinese? Good. The Atlantic.
• Keating, J. E. (2013, April). Insecurity Camera. Foreign Policy.
• Ma, D. (2013, February 22). Rolling out the Red Carpet. Foreign Policy.
• Nordenstreng, K. (2013). How the New World Order and Imperialism Challenge Media Studies. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 11(2), 348–358.
• Nossel, S. (2013, May 9). Iron Man vs. the Super Censors. Foreign Policy.
• Pierson, D. (2011, March 16). Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China’s good side. latimes.com.
• Qian, W. (2013, April 1). In China, the Subversiveness of Historical Films. The Atlantic.
• Simonnes, K. (2013, June 21). Norsk popmusikk er ikke typisk norsk. forskning.no.
• Sjaastad, E. O. (2013, July 30). Den tynne røde linjen. Rushprint.
• Usher, N. (2013, August 19). Can Al Jazeera America Win the Cable Wars? The Atlantic.
• Recently, the book Battlestar Galactica and International Relations, edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann was released. It can be previewed here on Google Books. 
• Arquilla, J. (2013, April 1). Would Captain Kirk Intervene in Syria? Foreign Policy.
• Gittell, N. (2013, May 22). George W. Bush Might Approve of Star Trek Into Darkness. The Atlantic.