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- Title
Contending With Capitalism: Political Economic Analysis of Eco-Activism on Whale Wars.
- Authors
Cox, Nicole B.
- Abstract
It is both reality television and eco-tainment. It heralds and marginalizes the environmental movement, supports and contradicts the very goals it aims to make public. In 2008, Whale Wars took to the small screen as Animal Planet Network turned to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to create a reality program concerned with environmental activism. Using political economy to explore the first 2 seasons of Whale Wars programming, research suggests that although Whale Wars is framed as the movement's chance to raise environmental consciousness through a mass media platform, the program concomitantly marginalizes the Sea Shepherd's message in exchange for the components that are integral to a lucrative reality program.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC research; CAPITALISM &; society; MASS media &; society; MASS media influence; WHALE Wars (TV program)
- Publication
Communication, Culture & Critique, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 3, p283
- ISSN
1753-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cccr.12050