Environmental issues have long been the ugly step-sister of news media topics, as well as other communication outlets. When they’re not being ignored for the more glamourous, ratings driven Cinderellas of the world, (sports, celebrity gossip news, etc.), environmental topics are often misrepresented, ill-explained, and downplayed for the public. Robert Cox and Phaedra Pezzullo successfully grasp the glass slipper in the most recent edition of their book, Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere through a fresh focus not only on the representation of environmental topics and how they should be communicated to the public but also on the way we perceive nature and our own role as a society and individually, within (or without) it.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric