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Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Illustrates the new ways in which journalists raise public awareness on climate change across local, national, regional, and global digital spaces
  • Contributes to a new ‘reflexive’ perspective of data journalism scholarship
  • Introduces the concept of 'cosmopolitan loops' to address major transformations in journalistic practice

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Ingrid Volkmer, Kasim Sharif
    Pages 1-10
  3. Risk Journalism—In Contexts of Trans-societal Interdependence

    • Ingrid Volkmer, Kasim Sharif
    Pages 11-50
  4. Methodology

    • Ingrid Volkmer, Kasim Sharif
    Pages 117-138
  5. Cosmopolitan Relational Loops of Interconnectivity

    • Ingrid Volkmer, Kasim Sharif
    Pages 223-243
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-292

About this book

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative ‘public’ interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates. The authors propose a framework of ‘cosmopolitan loops,’ which addresses three major transformations in journalistic practice: the availability of ‘fluid’ webs of data which situate journalistic practice in a transnational arena; the increased involvement of journalists from developing countries in a transnationally interdependent sphere; and the increased awareness of a larger interconnected globalized ‘risk’ dimension of even local issues which shapes a new sphere of news ‘horizons.’ The authors draw on interviews with journalists to demonstrate that the construction of climate change ‘issues’ is increasingly situated in an emerging dimension of journalistic interconnectivity with climate actors across local, global and digital arenas and through physicaland digital spaces of flows. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Ingrid Volkmer, Kasim Sharif

About the authors

Ingrid Volkmer is Professor at the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.


Kasim Sharif is Lecturer at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia.





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