Managing the Environmental Footprint of Nordic Media

Environmental management of the media: creative initiatives and industrial practices in the Nordic countries

Primary investigator: Pietari Kääpä

University of Stirling

Financed through the British Academy / Leverhulme

Project description

A recent material turn in environmental media studies has shifted the field’s focus from prioritizing ideological considerations to the management of resources in production, dissemination, consumption and discarding of both media products and devices. To exoand on this line of investigation, I focus on the Nordic media industries. While these countries are frequently perceived as some of the ‘greenest’ in the world, the environmentalism of these creative industries is rife with ideological and practical contradictions.

I focus on four key considerations in investigating the material impact of the media industries: regulation of the media, the organization of labour, resources used for production and dissemination, and the ways the messages become debated in public discussion. By combining more traditional media studies with management sciences, media economics, the creative industries as well as regulatory considerations, the field of environmental media management emerges as a vital interdisciplinary framework for advancing contemporary studies of the media

These pages will function as one means of publicly disseminating information on the project. Check back for updates in late 2014, including primary data and links to other relevant websites.

Kääpä’s profile:

http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/22779;jsessionid=bc81352bbdf0c7487652ebe58f0b