Approaches to the Anthropocene from Communication and Media Studies

Ignacio Bergillos
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Ignacio Bergillos: Centro de Enseñanza Superior Alberta Giménez, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Costa de Saragossa, 16, 07013 Palma, Spain

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: This paper explores how communication and media studies have engaged with the concept of the Anthropocene in recent years. The purpose of this study is to outline the most relevant theoretical and conceptual contributions from communication science and media studies to issues related to climate change, global sustainability and the Anthropocene. A literature review on the matter shows that the field of communication research is diverse and heterogeneous, and that it puts forward different concepts and theories that deal with media as the environment or the environment as media. Environmental communication and environmental humanities frame approaches to media representations of environmental issues, whereas elemental analysis focuses on the essence of media, its material dimensions and its entanglements with social practices. From the dialogue and interdisciplinary debates among these disciplines, new approaches such as environmental media studies arise. Differences among theories have to do with the definition of media or the consideration of humanity in relation to nature or technology. In sum, communication and media studies offer interdisciplinary approaches and a nuanced understanding of our socio-natural relations, which will become more and more mediated in the years to come.

Keywords: Anthropocene; media; communication; media theory; communication science; environmental communication; ecomedia; media life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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