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Seeking the Spotlight: WWViews and the US Media Context
Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance (2012)
  • Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
  • Jason Delborne, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract

This chapter focuses on the development and implementation of various media plans and strategies for World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWV) in the United States. While we aim to consider the U.S. case within the larger context of global media coverage of WWV, we focus primarily on the U.S. for two reasons: first, our participation in the U.S. WWV team provides rich understanding of efforts to attract U.S. media, and second, the U.S. media landscape and norms create particular challenges of garnering media coverage for an event like WWV that may not translate to other cultural contexts. Further collaborative work, beyond the scope of this paper, might allow us to complete a rigorous cross-national and cross-cultural analysis of WWV media coverage on a global scale. We therefore attempt to understand the successes and shortcomings of WWV media strategies in the U.S. and to offer thoughts on how future projects might handle media coverage more effectively.

Publication Date
2012
Editor
Mikko Rask, Richard Worthington, Minna Lammi
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781849713788
Publisher Statement
This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. The final, definitive version of this document can be found in Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance, published by Routledge. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Citation Information
Jen Schneider and Jason Delborne. "Seeking the Spotlight: WWViews and the US Media Context" New York, NYCitizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jen_schneider/18/