Media and the environment

Introduction

Abstract

This special issue on media and the environment grows out of the biennial meeting of the association of media and communication researchers in Denmark (SMiD) held at Aalborg University in Copenhagen in early May 2024. The theme of that meeting was “Media (and) sustainability: Crises, paradoxes and potentials”. After the meeting, we circulated a rather broad call for papers to the conference participants and other interested researchers. The aim was to get a sense of research being conducted in Denmark and the Nordic region under the broad heading of media and the environment. Most of the contributions in this special issue focus on media content and journalism (Agin & Karlsson; Zelenkauskaite et al.; Frig; Horsbøl & Eskjær; Sarras; Roslyng et al.). Those not dealing with journalism cover fashion (Mishra & Sandberg), computer games (Fernandes), and municipal climate communication (Grønning & Henriksen).