Critical Media Literacy
Teaches the integrated relationship between media and living systems. All media are embedded within earth’s living systems and calls for ethical care of those on the planet.
What is critical eco-media literacy?
When a company has control over the entire process. This allows for price control and potential to monopolize.
What is vertical integration?
Individuals and corporations “run in place” faster and fast in an effort to keep up in the global game of economic competition.
What is the Treadmill Logic of Capitalism?
A global stratification system in which the rich countries, the core, have exploited the poor countries, the periphery, for raw materials, new markets, and cheap labor.
What is World Systems Theory?
Makes social structures visible—that is, identifies persistent, hidden patterns of social relationships that are established over time
What is social theory?
Human tendency to favor information that supports our preexisting ideas, opinions, beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
Theoretically sounds positive but in practice, transnational corporations operate with minimal oversight and a lack of accountability, as seen in social media. Ironically, there can be a lack of diversity of perspectives.
What is "free flow of information"?
Culture influences our social constructions about ideas of nature and our relationship to it.
What is "naturework"?
The belief that the solutions to the current environmental crisis lie in technology. The term is usually used as a criticism of those who hold this belief.
What is a technofix?
A ‘story’ about how and why events in the universe occur
What is social theory?
The discomfort we experience when presented with information that contrasts our beliefs
What is cognitive dissonance?
1. Markets allocate resources efficiently and should provide the means of organizing economic and perhaps all human life 2. Economic freedom leads to and guarantees political freedom
What are the core elements of corporate media ideology?
Theoretical tradition based on Marx’s critique of capitalism. It emphasizes the contradictions of the system (e.g., class inequality) and the crisis they create; and contradictions between the capitalist means of production and the environment.
What is Ecological Marxism?
The phenomenon wherein increasing efficiency makes a resource less expensive to use, which then can actually lead to an increase in the consumption of that resource instead of a decrease.
What is Jevon's Paradox?
Social relations are “lifted out” of their local contexts and restructured across time and space, such as thorugh global economics and electronic communication networks
What is disembedding?
Truth-telling, minimizing harm, independence, accountability
What are journalistic codes of ethics?
Misinformation can be very difficult to correct and often has lasting effects even after it is discredited
What is fake news?
Associates patriarchy or male dominance as one form of inequality with environmental destruction. Argues that there can be no liberation for woman and no solution to the ecological crisis without elimination of all forms of exploitation.
What is Ecofeminism?
Theoretical argument based on the notion that capitalism can be “greened.” The transition to an environmentally sustainable economy initially involves government providing incentives for industry to invest in green technologies. However, government should eventually step aside and allow market mechanisms to take over.
What is Natural Capitalism?
We can see social structures metaphorically, links us to society and the environment in a patterned way over time and space
What are "invisible strings"?
Plural form of medium, which is a channel of information. Teaches us about the Information of the world and socializes us.
What is media?
Increasingly successful in lobbying international organizations for increased freedoms of the movement of capital technology and goods and services.
What are transnational corporations (TNCs)?
A particular system of governance that supports the efficacy of free markets, free trade, and expansion of private property. Policy instruments typically associated include self-regulating markets, deregulation, and privatization.
What is Neoliberalism?
A theory based on the principle that capitalism possesses the institutional capacity to reverse existing environmental destruction and that it can become environmentally sustainable.
Ecological Modernization Theory
The study of how social systems interact with ecosystems
What is environmental sociology?