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All That is Ice Melts into Media: Mediating the Climate Crisis and Facilitating Communication

Grant, Victoria LU (2020) KOVM12 20201
Division of Art History and Visual Studies
Abstract
Ice covers ten percent of the earth’s surface, seven percent of its oceans and is currently dominating the visual landscape as a key theme of climate communication in the media. Focusing on representations of climate change that implement ice as a key motif, this thesis postulates why and how climate discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the technological, social and institutional production of images in the media. Via a multi-modal approach, I aim to articulate homogeneous applications of materialisation, mediation and perception across different contexts in an attempt to provide an intertextual visual analysis of present and future climate discourses. By conceptualising encounters across 3 case studies, I establish that using ice to... (More)
Ice covers ten percent of the earth’s surface, seven percent of its oceans and is currently dominating the visual landscape as a key theme of climate communication in the media. Focusing on representations of climate change that implement ice as a key motif, this thesis postulates why and how climate discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the technological, social and institutional production of images in the media. Via a multi-modal approach, I aim to articulate homogeneous applications of materialisation, mediation and perception across different contexts in an attempt to provide an intertextual visual analysis of present and future climate discourses. By conceptualising encounters across 3 case studies, I establish that using ice to communicate the climate crisis may have exhausted its conviction as an icon, leaving the public with ambiguous perceptions. However, I suggest a need for further research is paramount to investigate how visuality negotiates structures of interpretation that inform public understanding of the climate crisis. (Less)
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author
Grant, Victoria LU
supervisor
organization
course
KOVM12 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Ice, Media, Mediation, Climate, Discourse, Communication.
language
English
id
9023630
date added to LUP
2020-09-14 08:18:34
date last changed
2020-09-14 08:18:34
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  abstract     = {{Ice covers ten percent of the earth’s surface, seven percent of its oceans and is currently dominating the visual landscape as a key theme of climate communication in the media. Focusing on representations of climate change that implement ice as a key motif, this thesis postulates why and how climate discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the technological, social and institutional production of images in the media. Via a multi-modal approach, I aim to articulate homogeneous applications of materialisation, mediation and perception across different contexts in an attempt to provide an intertextual visual analysis of present and future climate discourses. By conceptualising encounters across 3 case studies, I establish that using ice to communicate the climate crisis may have exhausted its conviction as an icon, leaving the public with ambiguous perceptions. However, I suggest a need for further research is paramount to investigate how visuality negotiates structures of interpretation that inform public understanding of the climate crisis.}},
  author       = {{Grant, Victoria}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{All That is Ice Melts into Media: Mediating the Climate Crisis and Facilitating Communication}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}