Climate change in the news : a study of the british press (original) (raw)
The paper builds on an extensive study of the coverage of climate change by the British press from the mid-eighties until 1997. A corpus of over 2 000 articles published in the Guardian, Times and Independent is the basis for both a quantitative and qualitative analysis on the representation of this complex matter. Climate change is a contested issue at the scientific, political, economic and social levels. The media are a central arena for such a debate. As a marketplace of arguments, the media promote some ideas and voices while suppressing others. It is then urgent to identify potential structural biases, as well as challenges to the dominant positions. The mass means of communication have an important role in the social production, reproduction and change of views and values. In other words, the media matter for the discursive construction of a normative order about the global environment. The aims of the paper will be to provide an overview of the coverage of climate change by ...
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