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With his new book Media Reform and the Climate Emergency: Rethinking Communication in the Struggle for a Sustainable Future, he critically examines how advertising, the digital infrastructure, and journalism advance the climate emergency and lays out a path of reform to help create a more sustainable world. The production and consumption of goods and services within consumer societies lead to unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, and Park finds that much of mass communication is either dependent upon or closely tied to the success of this social organization. As a result, he suggests successful environmental movements creatively dismantle or reform institutional infrastructures that extend the planetary global warming crisis and the unsustainable consumption of nature.   Communication policies and industries are part of these infrastructures. Advertising evolved to propel a new consumer society that would encourage the over-consumption of goods and services with harmful and unsustainable production processes. Our digital infrastructure is largely premised upon the surveillance of online consumer habits and preferences, with the goal to create individualized messages to more effectively persuade people to increase their consumption habits. Much of commercial journalism resists the drastic and immediate regulatory changes necessary to address the worst aspects of this crisis. This is because so many of the needed changes challenge the media’s source of income, their libertarian philosophy, and the general status quo, which is preferred by elites. Bound to foster conversations among scholars, activists, politicians, and those who work in the communication industries, this book rethinks mass communication and highlights how immediate reform is needed in the struggle for a sustainable planet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51320892948753,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51320894488849,"sku":"CIN0472132717VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472132717.jpg?v=1751293171"},{"product_id":"media-reform-and-the-climate-emergency-book-david-j-park-9780472040032","title":"Media Reform and the Climate Emergency","description":"Willis H. O'Brien (1886-1962) ist der gro e Pionier des Spezialeffekt-Kinos. DIE VERLORENE WELT (1925) und besonders KING KONG (1933) stellen technische, aber auch k nstlerische Meilensteine des klassischen Kinos dar, die Legionen von Zuschauern und Filmschaffenden verzaubert und inspiriert haben. Dieses Buch erz hlt von O Briens Triumphen, aber auch von seinen Niederlagen. Es sp rt den Geschichten hinter den Filmen nach und dokumentiert anhand von zeitgen ssischen Besprechungen und Kritiken, wie sie zur Zeit ihres Erscheinens beurteilt wurden. Erz hlt von den vollendeten aber auch den vielen unvollendeten Werken. H tte O'Brien alle Filme fertig stellen k nnen, an denen er gearbeitet hat, w re die Filmgeschichte um einige Kinotr ume reicher. So jedoch bleiben meist nur ein paar Zeichnungen, Fotos oder Drehbuchentw rfe von einigen seiner faszinierendsten Ideen. 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