Type of Document Dissertation Author Mathur, Piyush URN etd-08112003-175921 Title Theorizing "Ecological Communication" Degree PhD Department Science and Technology Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Timothy W. Luke Committee Chair Ann F. Laberge Committee Member Ellsworth R. Fuhrman Committee Member Leonard L. Hatfield Committee Member Robert B. Siegle Committee Member Saul E. Halfon Committee Member Keywords
- Ecology; Communication; Ecological Communication;
Date of Defense 2003-07-28 Availability unrestricted Abstract In this dissertation, I make a theoretical exploration into the mass communicationof ecological issues, a phenomenon bound to become increasingly important through the
on-going dual process of economic-cum-ecological globalization and information
revolution. Such an exploration is warranted, first, because, despite the highly visible coexistence
of global warming and the digital divide on the same world-stage, sociohumanistic
research generally has continued to focus on ecology and (mass)
communication in their mutual separation. Since interconnections of ecology and
communication have received attention from only a limited number of media analysts and
environmentally sensitive journalists, mass communication of ecological issues is as yet
an under-examined theme.
Secondly, the scarce research on the topic—though it has occasionally been done
and shared under the generalized rubric of environmental or ecological communication
(EC)—actually amounts to little more than disparate case studies and empirical reports
related to risk and hazard communication, disaster communication, environmental
journalism, or science journalism. In other words, mainstream research on
communication of ecological matters falls short of a theoretical exploration into the
probable interfaces between ecology and communication, pointing to the research
community’s overall complacency with uncoordinated and narrowly-framed case studies.
Furthermore, the majority of existing EC accounts represent a positivistic, solutionprovider’s
ideology, even though they are invested in the progressive cause of
environmentalism. They generally accept the media as a probative solution to
ecologically suspect acts of the State or corporate sector, and are not particularly invested
in the speculative realm of possible silences that may characterize the communicative
landscapes of global ecologies.
I contend that the issues neglected by EC researchers have already been delved
into independently—even though to unrelated ends—by thinkers from other more mature
discourses such as communication systems theory, development studies, philosophy and
sociology of technology, political theory, and cultural and literary theories. Engaging
with selected contributions from the above discourses, and drawing from the approaches
of critical traditionalism on one hand, and semiotics, on the other, I attempt to go beyond
EC’s erstwhile media focus by theorizing EC critically. As part of that effort, I postulate
and develop upon the following analytical and theoretical axes: (1) technology; (2) the
nation-state; and (3) and development. I devote exclusive sections to two of the above
components: against the general background of development.
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