CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Environmental Communication, Anthropocene, Human Communication
19 May 2017
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Anthropocene: new era where humans have an impact on the planet, began 10,000 years ago. Climate change is the most pressing issue we face as a species. We learn about these issues through communications. Stakeholders with interests are presenting these issues to us. Environmental communication: the pragmatic/ constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world. Social constructionism: symbolic medium that we use in constructing environmental problems. Negotiates society"s different responses to environmental problems. Pragmatic: practical function to the message, the communication is meant to do something. Ex. notify you about problems, suggest solutions, tell you to vote. Constitutive: helps us construct/ compose representations of nature and environmental problems as subjects for our understanding, how we come to understand why it"s an issue. You look at what feelings are invoked. Look at the audio and visual together.
