Imagining a “post-carbon” future? Climate change as represented by media and film industries

• Authors: Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna , Nicieja, Stankomir

Abstracts

EN

This study explores current trends in representing and communicating climate change by media industries. It reviews the current literature on mainstream media narratives of climate change focusing on their naturalization of progress and their techno-optimism (e.g., as regards geoengineering). It provides insight on how the media industry’s commercial agenda is linked to the types of disseminated messages and dominant imaginaries. It compares respective codes inherent in news media and film/fictional representations of climate change on representative examples. It traces the evolution of disaster/dystopian genres that involve climate issues. It discusses the implications from such a comparative analysis in terms of the potential failure to mobilize the public – to first imagine the alternatives and then to act collectively for the sake of the “post-carbon” future.

Keywords

EN

climate change; mobilization; techno-optimism; narrative; post-carbon future

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 34(1)
• Pages: 47-62

Dates

published

2020-07-09

Contributors

author

Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna

author

Nicieja, Stankomir

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.3078