Readings and schedule are subject to change. Please consult the Moodle site weekly for the most current assignments and bibliographic references. E-book reserve readings will be linked on the class Moodle. Please see Moodle page for additional honors readings.
A note on required readings. Several of the assigned books are very short. Some of the chapters listed below are only five pages long (for example Stibee), so when you see "Stibbe chs. 2, 3, 4, 26," that only accounts for 20 pages. Several of the books that are listed as reserve readings will only be a few chapters per book. The amount of reading per week is on a par with all other CMS classes.
Week 1: Constructing Environmental Paradigms
· Corbett: Intro, 1-2
· Lopez: 2
Week 2: Constructing Environmental Paradigms
· Lopez: 1, 3-4
Week 3: Ecological Mindprint: Advertising and Popular Culture
· Corbett: 3-4
· Lopez: 8
Week 4: Advertising and Popular Culture
· Corbett: 5-7
· "Selling with Gaia: Advertising and the natural world," Joseph Clark (Ecomedia, PDF)
· 6_sins-greenwashing.pdf
Week 5: Ecological Mindprint: Political Ecology: Constructing Environmental Issues and Claims Making
· Lopez: 7
· "Communication, media and social construction of the environment," Anders Hansen (Routledge Handbook of Environmental Communication, PDF)
· "Systems dynamics meets the press," Donella Meadows (PDF)
Week 6: Constructing Environmental Issues and Claims Making
· Corbett: 8
· "Democracy, climate crisis and journalism: Normative touchstones," Robert Hackett (Journalism and Climate Crisis, PDF)
· "Conclusion: Media reform for climate action," Robert Hackett (Journalism and Climate Crisis, PDF)
Week 7: Corporate PR and Activist Image Events
· Corbett: 9
· "Interview with David Ritter: Mobilising on change--The experience of Greenpeace, Benedetta Brevini (Carbon Capitalism, PDF)
· "An interview with Michael E Mann: Fighting for science against climate change deniers's propaganda," Benedetta Brevini (Carbon capitalism, PDF)
Week 8: Ecological Footprint: Intro to Political/material ecology of media
· Lopez: 5
· "An interview with Naomi Klein: Capitalism versus the climate," Christopher Wright (Carbon Capitalism, PDF)
· "Digital Desires: Mediated consumerism and climate crisis," Justin Lewis (Carbon Capitalism, PDF)
· "Departure: A changing world" (ch. 1), Jack Linchuan Qiu (Goodbye i-Slave, reserve)
Week 9: Ecological Footprint: Conflict minerals/production
· "The greenest smartphone is the one you already own," Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller (How Green is you Smartphone?, reserve)
· "A temporary closure" (ch. 6), Jack Linchuan Qiu (Goodbye i-Slave, reserve)
· "Immaterial culture? The (Un)sustainability of screens," Paul Micklethwaite (Media and the Ecological Crisis, reserve)
Week 10: Ecological Footprint: Energy/e-waste
· "Making data sustainable: Backup culture and risk perception," Shane Brennan (Sustainable Media, reserve)
· "Re-thingifying the internet of things," Jennifer Gabrys (Sustainable Media, reserve)
· "E-waste, human-waste, infoflation," Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock (Media and the Ecological Crisis, reserve)
Week 11: Ecomedia footprint: Selfworld/Affect
· Lopez: 4
· "Mind your media: From distraction to attention," Jennifer Rauch (Slow Media, PDF)
Week 12: Conclusion: Citizenship
· Corbett: 10
· "Digital technology and the environment: Challenges for green citizenship and environmental organizations," Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller (Carbon Capitalism, PDF)