Journalism in the Anthropocene: Media, Modernity and the World to Come

by Dominic Hinde

Overview

What role does journalism play in shaping how we understand climate change and the planet we live on?

This thought-provoking book explores how media systems have helped construct our idea of the “human” Earth, from early nature reporting to today’s digital climate dashboards. Drawing on insights from the humanities and social sciences, it offers a fresh look at how news, data and storytelling influence public thinking in the age of the Anthropocene.

Building on the work of influential thinkers, the book asks how journalism can evolve to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529256710
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2026
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dominic Hinde is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, and a writer and foreign and environmental correspondent.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Journalism, modernity and the human

Chapter 2: The end of nature and the end of journalism

Chapter 3: The Anthropocene and the media

Chapter 4 Media hot and hotter

Chapter 5: Plotting the Anthropocene: Digital modernity and

charismatic data

Chapter 6 Reporting the climate city

Chapter 7: New times for journalism

Chapter 8 Resilience and the neverending shock of the present

Chapter 9 Media cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene

Chapter 10: Global journalists in liquid worlds

Chapter 11: Journalism as eschatology and the world to come