Social Media and Oil in Southern California
Greenwashing Los Angeles- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2023
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2023
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-3099-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-3100-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 106
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
- Naturalizing Derrick No access Pages 13 - 24
- Dreamland No access Pages 25 - 50
- YouTube Butterflies No access Pages 51 - 66
- Soccer and Greenwashing in Los Angeles No access Pages 67 - 82
- Conclusion No access Pages 83 - 92
- Bibliography No access Pages 93 - 102
- Index No access Pages 103 - 104
- About the Author No access Pages 105 - 106





