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. [Read more…]