UID:
almafu_9959230851702883
Format:
1 online resource (389 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-2610-3
Series Statement:
Image 55
Content:
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for tomorrow's realities. »Image Politics of Climate Change« combines a wide interdisciplinary range of perspectives and questions, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate sciences, computer graphics, art, curating, art history and visual studies, communication and cultural science, environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization.
Content:
»Eine Publikation, die mit informierten und detaillierten Beiträgen der Komplexität des Themas bestens Rechnung trägt. Die Beiträge zeichnen sich alle durch ihre hohe Qualität und trotz des Detailreichtums durch ein hohes Theorieniveau aus.« Angela Krewani, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2015) »Die im Band versammelten 16 Beiträge [machen] eindrucksvoll den Facettenreichtum des Gegenstandes deutlich.« Mike S. Schäfer, M&K, 63/2 (2015)
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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1 Table of Contents 5 Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction 9 The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences 29 Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes 55 "Tricks," Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character 81 The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC's 'Burning Embers' 105 Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009 127 Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media 153 Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges 187 Color Plates 211 Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication 225 The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone 249 How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change 273 The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non-Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action? 299 Picturing the State of the Nation's Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s 325 Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable 345 Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering 363 Contributing Authors 383
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-2610-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-99556-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
DOI:
10.14361/transcript.9783839426104
