Sample post: the social construction of environmental icons

Click on the link below, and it will take you to a website of a story about how the media constructs images of iconic animals/issues. This post is a good example of the process of building narratives, the narrative that Martha Stewart and her group wants to build contrasts with the narrative that the journalist is weaving. And the journalist is drawing on the expertise of World Wildlife Fund biologists he is accompanying. So it’s a tangled web!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/martha-stewart-and-the-cannibal-polar-bears-a-true-story/275802/

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