¥What can we expect will be the
future of mass media as a bridge between formal climate
science and policy to our cafŽs, pubs, living rooms and kitchen tables amid the
many challenges in the 21stcentury? ¥How will news and entertainment
media differentially influence how climate issues
are taken up or resisted in our everyday lives? ¥What are future roles that various
claims-makers have in the creation , maintenance or silencing of
discourses on climate issues? ¥How will ongoing structures, laws and institutions
continue to influence climate considerations? ¥What empirical work must be done
to provide more textured understandings of mediaand climate? ¥How will these
science-policy-media-public interactions play out differentially across
different local, regional and national contexts? ¥How will varied cultural, social,
political, economic and environmental issues shape media
representational practices from location to location? ¥What does the future hold for
media representational practices shaping climate science
and governance priorities?
¥How will such priorities shape
ongoing media processes and practices?
¥How will these issues shape varied
awareness and engagementacross
gender, age, and socio-economic segments of the public citizenry?