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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Environmental Lifestyle Media

Author : Geoffrey Craig

Published in: Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter offers a definition of lifestyle media and it delineates the more specific concept of environmental lifestyle media. It explores the synergy that often occurs between lifestyle media and accompanying advertising. The chapter considers lifestyle media as popular media texts that both entertain and educate readers and viewers and it investigates the ways that environmental lifestyle media can at times both contribute to processes of democratisation and reproduce class divisions. The chapter provides discussion of how environmental lifestyle media are oriented around strategies of self-improvement and are examples of cultural governance. It also introduces the reader to the methodological approach adopted in the textual analyses of the case studies in subsequent chapters.

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Metadata
Title
Environmental Lifestyle Media
Author
Geoffrey Craig
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-53468-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53469-9

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53469-9_2