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To promote and safeguard sustainable development, the mass media need to improve in several regards. If not, they may find themselves facing charges of complicity in a crime against humanity. The authors look at how media logic, media effects, mediatization, common journalistic practices, framing, cultural cognition, ideology, and prevailing political and cultural economies have acted and interacted to create a global media environment which is unhelpful or hostile to sustainable development, especially with regard to climate change denialism. However, the media also produce positive examples of eco-narratives and other hopeful signs that need to be encouraged and supported rather than held back by media regulation systems that encumber and present obstacles to communication. These systems, the authors argue, must refocus their justifications and legitimacy on more than human rights, which have so far dominated media regulation on national as well as transnational levels. The authors recommend globalization of media regulation and more regulative focus on sustainability by means of normative biodiversity and cultural diversity.
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Löwstedt, A., Igropoulou, D. (2021). Between Rights and Diversities: Can the Regulation of Communication Help Prevent Climate Change and Promote Sustainable Development?. In: Yusha’u, M.J., Servaes, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69770-9_6
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