The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century: Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses

by Heather Graves

Book Overview

This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil, analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates to resist corporate framing.

In the twenty-first century, oil has become a subject of civic deliberation. Environmental concerns have intensified, questions of indigenous rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032178280
• ISBN13: 9781032178288
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"