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Where Technology Goes to Die: Representations of ElectronicWaste in Global Television News
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI), The Wigforss Group.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4697-5394
2017 (English)In: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, ISSN 1752-4032, E-ISSN 1752-4040, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 263-275Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article analyzes how electronic waste (e-waste) gets represented in television news stories. The main objective is to present a perspective on how a “low-frequency” emergency (i.e. a lengthy and ongoing state of environmental emergency) is presented as a newsworthy issue. Drawing on literature on televised “distant suffering,” the article engages in a multimodal text analysis of four newsstories about e-waste. The findings show how on-location reports from e-waste dumping sites make use of sublime imagery in the visual representations; how e-waste dumping sites are presented as strange spaces, with no clear and comprehensible history; and finally, that the representations suggest an ambivalence and uncertainty when it comes to agency (who is responsible and what can be done?). The article ends with a discussion of the implications of this mode of representation and its effectiveness in eliciting an appropriate response to the harms caused by e-waste. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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Philadelphia: Routledge, 2017. Vol. 11, no 2, p. 263-275
Keywords [en]
Distant suffering, electronic waste, representation, television news
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32151DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2016.1233127ISI: 000396842900008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84990185997OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-32151DiVA, id: diva2:1033396
Available from: 2016-10-06 Created: 2016-10-06 Last updated: 2017-11-30Bibliographically approved

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