In what ways has climate change revealed the limits of contemporary media and communications?

1. In what ways has climate change revealed the limits of contemporary media and communications? How might these limits be overcome? What are some counter-examples that illustrate a more positive use of media and communications with regard to climate change? (Note: you should discuss these questions as specifically as possible, with particular examples of both media and communications and aspects of climate change, in specific situations.) 2. Choose an important contemporary problem involving climate change and develop a media and communications strategy to address it. Be specific in your choice of problem, the situations involved and your strategy and tactics in response. 3. How are media and communications being used to reorganise social life in response to climate change. Be specific in your choices of examples and situations. How might they be used in the future? What kinds of roles will they play? 4. Where do you, yourself, find hope in a world of changing climates? What roles do/might media and communications play in this? 5. Devise your own essay topic and/or approach to this assignment. If you decide to do this, you must confirm it with Don by the time of your tutorial in week six. Criteria * Materials (and Research): Your demonstrated engagement with the materials/readings/explorations for the course and your further research into the topic, beyond the course materials. * Response: Your critical thinking through of the issues involved and careful response to them. Note here that “critical thinking” is not just (or even) saying “what’s wrong” with something. “Critical” is much misunderstood as a term. In this course, “critical thinking” means that you need to explore what actually works or what’s valuable in the ideas you’re engaged with, as well as what doesn’t work. You need to ask where the ideas could go further, where their limits are (the point at which such ideas cease to be useful), or how they could be modified to be more useful, etc. * Expression: Your synthesis (bringing together) of the ideas, practices and issues you’re dealing with into a satisfactory form of academic expression in English. The form of expression should fit the ideas and issues at hand.