Guest Editors
Carolina Fernández-Castrillo, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Antonio López, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Ramón Salaverría, University of Navarra, Spain
Vitor Tomé, Autonoma University of Lisbon, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
The climate emergency requires ecomedia ethics, responsibility, and sustainability in media
production. Therefore, media need to be conceived as a socio-technological ecosystem from an ecoethical perspective to embrace the environmental dimension of ICTs. An ecologically normative
framework also demands integrating environmental awareness into our pedagogy. Ecomedia literacy
promotes active eco-citizenship and environmental justice by assuming a crucial role in educating in
ecological values and mobilizing public opinion on environmental awareness to combat abuse of
power, climate obstructionism, greenwashing, and disinformation, among others. The climate crisis
communication strategies require an interdisciplinary and creative approach, since specialized
journalism, academic publication or scientific dissemination are still not effective enough to impact
our daily decisions to live sustainably by shaping the interconnected realms of society, economy, and
environment. From educommunication, the ways to encourage sustainable behaviors and to
overcome the intergenerational climate-anxiety include a wide variety of popular (post)digital
practices, from mainstream culture to media artivism. Through research on ecomedia, the aim of this
Special Issue is to deepen the scientific understanding of the characteristics of climate-related
disinformation and the ways to address it from ecoliteracy.
This Special Issue is driven by Iberifier, the Iberian Digital Media Observatory, co-funded by the
European Commission (Call DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04; reference: IBERIFIER Plus – 101158511).
Within the framework of this project, research on disinformation phenomena is promoted across
various topics, including climate crisis and ecomedia literacy.
