Environmental literacy discourse represented in local portal "nggalek.co"

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.