Image Politics of Climate Change
Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
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Beschreibung
Which impact has the climate discourse on the visual arts? Insights into the crucial role of images and how they shape climate change communication.
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.
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Birgit Schneider
Birgit Schneider lehrt als Professorin für Wissenskulturen und mediale Umgebungen an der Universität Potsdam. Sie forscht zu Bildern und Wahrnehmungsweisen des Klimas, der Kommunikation des Klimawandels, Bildern der Ökologie sowie zu medientheoretischen Fragen.
Themen in »Image Politics of Climate Change«
Climate Change Communication Climate Change Communication Visual Culture Visual Culture Visual Studies Visual Studies Media Media Information Design Information Design Environment Environment Climate Policy Climate Policy Statistics
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»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.«
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»Die im Band versammelten 16 Beiträge [machen] eindrucksvoll den Facettenreichtum des Gegenstandes deutlich.«
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