Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations

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Image Politics of Climate Change

Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations

Edited by: Birgit Schneider and Thomas Nocke

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 55 | Image

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Which impact has the climate discourse on the visual arts? Insights into the crucial role of images and how they shape climate change communication.

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Schneider Birgit :

Birgit Schneider ist Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlerin und lehrt als Professorin für Wissenskulturen und mediale Umgebungen an der Universität Potsdam. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Bilder und Wahrnehmungsweisen des Klimas zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik, Kunst und Medien, die Kommunikation des Klimawandels, Bilder der Ökologie sowie medien- und naturästhetische Fragen.

Nocke Thomas :

Thomas Nocke (PhD in computer science) investigates visualization methods for climate data and visual climate knowledge communication at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

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»Die im Band versammelten 16 Beiträge [machen] eindrucksvoll den Facettenreichtum des Gegenstandes deutlich.«

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction Birgit Schneider and Thomas Nocke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Chapter 1. The Epistemic Value of Visualization in Climate Sciences
The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes Thomas Nocke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Chapter 2. Communicating Results: The Status of Climate Expert Graphs in IPCC Reports
“Tricks,” Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character Lynda Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC’s ‘Burning Embers’ Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Chapter 3. Images of Climate Change in the Press and on the Web
Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 Elke Grittmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media Birgit Schneider, Thomas Nocke and Georg Feulner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges Markus Wrobel and Dominik Reusser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Color Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Chapter 4. From Vision to Action? Making the Invisible Imaginable through Art and Photography
Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication Julie Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone Vera Tollmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change Ulrike Reine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non–Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action? Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Chapter 5. Images of Climate Control
Picturing the State of the Nation’s Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s Gisela Parak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable James Rodger Fleming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering Isabell Schrickel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Contributing Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

June 15, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9783839426104

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

388

Illustrations:

66

Coloured Illustrations:

3

Other:

66 schw.-w. u. 3 farb. Abb.

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