Social Media and Oil in Southern California
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Environmental Communication
Environmental Politics
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greenwashing
oil
petroleum
postcard
social media
visual politics
visual rhetoric
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- ISBN 9781793630995
- Weight: 327g
- Dimensions: 157 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles interrogates the politics of invisibility that permeates Southern California’s oil industry. Most residents are completely unaware that hospitals, schools, businesses, and homes are built among the thousands of active wells in Los Angeles County. Since the early 1900’s, the oil industry used social media to greenwash itself and obscure the material consequences of drilling and refining. From postcards to YouTube, social media has been a key tool in the arsenal of the fossil fuel industry. Jason L. Jarvis argues that oil–not Hollywood–is the key industry that drives the California dream. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, and rhetoric will find this book of particular interest.
Jason L. Jarvis is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
