TY - BOOK ID - 113574257 TI - Communication in Defense of Nonhuman Animals during an Extinction and Climate Crisis AU - Freeman, Carrie P. AU - Almiron, Núria PY - 2022 SN - 3036556184 3036556176 PB - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Humanities KW - Social interaction KW - white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) KW - shark–human conflict KW - predators/carnivores and perceived threat KW - fear KW - science KW - pseudoscience KW - Jaws KW - media representation KW - Tiger King KW - COVID-19 media KW - popular culture KW - zoos KW - quarantine KW - captive wildlife KW - creative/critical animal and media studies KW - rhetoric KW - environmental communication KW - eudaimonia KW - ethos KW - more-than-human KW - sensitized compassion KW - sixth mass extinction KW - Racing Extinction KW - Seaspiracy KW - manta rays KW - animal imagery KW - colonialism KW - fishing KW - shark fin trade KW - coyotes KW - discourse KW - neutralization techniques KW - killing contests KW - wildlife management KW - monk parakeet KW - Madrid KW - press representation KW - invasive species KW - conservationism KW - control methods KW - speciesism KW - framing analysis KW - text analysis KW - sentiment analysis KW - n/a KW - shark-human conflict UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113574257 AB - As modern science and critical scholarship are beginning to recognize nonhuman animals as fellow subjects and conscious, sentient beings with interests and deserving of respect, moral dilemmas abound as humanity acknowledges the threats our activities pose to human and nonhuman animal life, including the sixth mass extinction, anthropogenic climate change, and widespread exploitation. In this 2022 Special Issue of the Journalism and Media journal, communication professors Carrie Freeman and Núria Almiron curated scholarship assessing the impact this environmental havoc is having on nonhuman animals living in nature (including those free-roaming animals who coexist in our urban spaces) and the vital role that media and communication play in contributing to and remedying these crises. Seven scholars across the USA and Spain contributed chapters exploring how issues affecting “wildlife” (such as octopuses, sharks, coyotes, parakeets, and fishes) are constructed in media and political discourses or are perceived and acted upon by public media, and the authors provide prescriptions to problems facing animals in nature, offering constructive guidance to communicators (from activists to journalists to film-makers). ER -