Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

Stoddart, Mark C. J.; Haluza‐DeLay, Randolph; Tindall, David B.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1054569

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“…Analyses of frames that dominate our broader data set appear elsewhere (Stoddart and Tindall ; Stoddart et al. ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An analysis of the broader period 1997 to 2010 appears in Stoddart, Haluza-DeLay, and Tindall (2016). is structured to code for agreement or disagreement with issue statements, which focuses the analysis on how actors cluster around shared support or opposition to a discourse.…”

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“…Only a small number of these issue statements explicitly address climate change and the Artic and are the focus of our present analysis. Analyses of frames that dominate our broader data set appear elsewhere (Stoddart and Tindall 2015;Stoddart et al 2016). Visone software (http://visone.info/html/imprint.html#contact) was used to construct social network visualizations of our DNA data (see Figures 1 and 2).…”

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The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: Canadian News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North

Stoddart

Smith

2016

Canadian Review of Sociology

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The Arctic is one of the most radically altered parts of the world due to climate change, with significant social and cultural impacts as a result. Using discourse network analysis and qualitative textual analysis of articles published in the Globe and Mail and National Post during the period 2006 to 2010, we identify and analyze key frames that interpret the implications of climate change on the Arctic. We examine Canadian national news media coverage to ask: How does the Arctic enter media coverage of climate change? Is there evidence of a climate justice discourse in relation to regional disparities in the risks and harms of climate change between northern and southern Canada? Climate change in the Arctic is often framed through the lens of Canadian national interests, which downplays climate-related social impacts that are already occurring at subnational political and geographical scales. L'Arctique est une des régions du monde la plus radicalement altérée par le changement climatique, menant comme résultat des importants changements sociaux et culturels. En utilisant l'analyse des réseaux de discours ainsi que l'analyse textuelle qualitative des articles publiés dans le Globe and Mail et le National Post de 2006 à 2010, nous identifions and analysons des cadres clés qui servent à interpréter les conséquences du changement climatique dans l'Arctique. Nous examinons la couverture des médias nationaux canadiens pour pouvoir demander : comment est-ce que l'Arctique s'insère dans la couverture médiatique du changement climatique? Est-ce qu'il y a de la preuve d'un discours de la justice climatique en relation des disparités régionales des risques et méfaits du changement climatique entre le Canada du nord et du sud? Le changement climatique dans l'Arctique est souvent encadré à travers le prisme des intérêts nationaux canadiens, ce qui minimise les impacts sociaux reliés au climat qui se produisent actuellement aux échelons sous-nationaux politiques et géographiques.

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“…Analyses of frames that dominate our broader data set appear elsewhere (Stoddart and Tindall ; Stoddart et al. ).…”

Section: Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: Canadian News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North

Stoddart

Smith

2016

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…The United Kingdom passed a "world-leading" climate and emissions reductions bill despite controversy (Giddens 2009). In Canada, one major paper largely accepted the consensus science position, while another provided more space for climate skepticism (Stoddart, Haluza-DeLay, and Tindall 2016). These contradictory tendencies soften the rejection of science evident in the Anglo cluster, making the United States exceptional in its degree of rejection.…”

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Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

Broadbent

Sonnett

Botetzagias

et al. 2016

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for mitigation policy. These dimensions yield four clusters of cases producing a fractured global field. Positive values on the dimensions show modest association with emissions reductions. Data-mining media research is needed to determine trends in this global field.

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“…Asplund (2014) identifies five macro-themes in the literature on public perceptions of climate change, such as consensus and conflict in climate science (e.g. Asplund et al, 2013;Feldman, 2013;Jaspal et al, 2016;Schäfer, 2016;Schmidt et al, 2013;Speck, 2010), attribution of causes, levels of concern, climate change frames as filtered through existing worldviews (Leiserowitz et al, 2013;Poortinga et al, 2011;Whitmarsh, 2011), and the influence of experience on interpreting climate change (Akerlof et al, 2013;Spence et al, 2010;Taylor et al, 2014;Weber, 2010). In support to this, the literature review (from 1980 to 2014) on the evolution of public perceptions of climate change carried out by Capstick et al (2015) shows that changes in public perception were particularly influenced by experiences of extreme weather events, media events, economic downturn and political events.…”

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‘Offline’ vs ‘online’ media: Claim-makers, content, and audiences of climate change information

Ruiu¹

2018

World of Media

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This paper aims to explore both similarities and differences between offline and online climate change communication in terms of claim-makers, content, and audiences. It is based on academic peer reviewed papers directly relevant to the communication of climate change by the media, published in English language between 2010 and 2016. Interdependences between offline and online media are often cited, especially in terms of web searches of information already reported by traditional media (both print and television). In some other cases, the study of the intermedia agenda shows that the debate originated on online blogs triggers and conditions the attention of print media. This interdependence is also showed by a polarisation between 'activists' and 'contrarians' in both online and offline arenas. However, while the web offers greater space for interaction and a variety of sources, the dominance of the 'old media' point of view seems to undermine these attempts.

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Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

Cited by 45 publications

References 32 publications

The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: Canadian News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North

The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: Canadian News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North

Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

‘Offline’ vs ‘online’ media: Claim-makers, content, and audiences of climate change information

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