The MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network is hosting a panel at the 2011 Annual MeCCSA Conference, 12-14th January at Salford.
Our panel Media and Climate Change is scheduled for Friday 14th January at 13:30 – 15:00 in Studio 3, with the following lineup:
Chair: Muhammad Shabir Khan
- Mass media role for climate change communication and global environmental sustainability
Ronju Ahammed, Sustainable Environment & Climate Change Programme, Bangladesh - Mediated Climate Change: Scepticism on the Web and on Television Around Copenhagen
Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool and Tom Marshall, University of Aberystwyth - Towards a (Re)Materialisation of the Spectacular (Celebrity) Objects of Climate Change
Mike Goodman, King‘s College, London - Cosmopolitanism and Justice in British Newspaper Coverage of COP15 Copenhagen 2009 and COP16 Cancun 2010
Unn Laksa, University of Liverpool
There is also another panel that might be of interest, on Wednesday 12th January at 15:45 – 17:15 in Studio 3, entitled Mediating animals: exploring commodification and affect. This panel features:
Chair: Marie Messenger Davies
- Affective animals in media topologies
Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University - Sustainable consumption? Reframing meat and dairy in the politics of climate change
Julie Doyle, University of Brighton - Wildlife encounters: constructing the authentic animal experience
Claire Molloy, University of Brighton - The Representation of the Laboratory Animal in Popular Media Forms
Alison Moore, University of Lincoln
Finally, please note that there will be a MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network meeting at 15:00 – 15:45 on Friday 14th January. This will also take place at the conference, but venue is to be confirmed. We are hoping that we may be able to use Studio 3 to allow us to continue discussion from our panel.
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