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Cosmopolitan Relational Loops of Interconnectivity

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Climate change can no longer be considered as just an ‘issue’ but it is today an increasingly politicized globally interdependent crisis. Within this spectrum, climate change journalism—or, we argue, ‘risk journalism’—has new responsibilities to communicate the interdependence of globalized crisis dimensions within a world community.

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Volkmer, I., Sharif, K. (2018). Cosmopolitan Relational Loops of Interconnectivity. In: Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73308-1_8

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