Abstract
Nowadays, environmental problems are important issues that require people to respond in the right ways to prevent worse disasters. For that reason, environmental literacy discourse is an important issue to be built informal and non-formal education and in the public sphere. Environmentally literate individuals have the knowledge and skills required to analyze the environmental problems so that they can behave pro-environmentally. This paper has a purpose to know how the local young people in Trenggalek (a rural district in the southern coastal area of East Java) develop environmental literacy through a local portal of “Nggalek.co.” The Trenggalek-based portal “Nggalek.co” is intended as the means for communicating their localities to their community and the world. This paper will explore the environmental literacy discourse presented in the portal by using Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough. This analysis applied three levels of analysis, micro, meso, and macro. The study shows that environmental literacy is a somehow essential issue in this portal, especially when it is related to governmental policy in environmental problems. The awareness of the environmental problems shows a high level, especially because it is directly related to people’s daily life, that is when there is “natural” disaster people got direct impact.
Highlights
Environmental issues become a subject that needs serious attention from many more people on this planet
Environmental problems are important issues that require people to respond in the right ways to prevent worse disasters
This paper will explore the environmental literacy discourse presented in the portal by using Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough
Summary
Environmental issues become a subject that needs serious attention from many more people on this planet. Environmental literacy is the level that individuals can manifest their information and sensitiveness into behavior In this sense, environmental literacy means that people have the appropriate knowledge to make the environment systems work without problems and take the necessary precautions and do what is required to ensure natural systems to achieve overall aim [4]. In the process of planting paddy that involves many women, giving treatment to the plants and the soil, as well as the tradition in harvesting, all of which is building a harmonious relationship between human beings and nature This portal highlights its advocating and strengthening the local traditional art and culture in facing the global culture that is more difficult to be avoided in the new media era. Data sources of this study are the texts from the websites of Nggalek.co which are classified into the articles under environmental issues as their themes
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