Framing and sources: a study of mass media coverage of climate change in Peru during the V ALCUE

Abstract

Studies about mass media framing have found divergent levels of influence on public opinion; moreover, the evidence suggests that issue attributes can contribute to this difference. In the case of climate change, studies have focused exclusively on developed countries, suggesting that media influence perceptions about the issue. This study presents one of the first studies of media coverage in a developing country. It examines newspapers' reporting in Peru during the Fifth Latin America, Caribbean and European Union Summit in May 2008. The study focuses on the frames and the sources to provide an initial exploratory assessment of the coverage. The results show that the media relied mostly on government sources, giving limited access to dissenting voices such as environmentalists. Additionally, a prominence of "solutions" and "effects" frames was found, while "policy" and "science" frames were limited. The results could serve as a reference point for more comprehensive studies.

From the laboratory to prime time: science coverage in the main Brazilian TV newscast

“…For example, in the journal Brazilian Journalism Research, out of the 50 articles on journalism published between 2005 and 2008, only five focused on the news conveyed by the TV 7 . When searching for papers on science and technology content in the newscasts, the number of Brazilian research publications is even smaller, with most papers dealing with science coverage in general in the foreign printed press 8,9,10,11,12 or with specific scientific issues such as nanotechnology, 13,14 biotechnology, 16,17,18 and climate change, 19,20,21,22,23 mostly in foreign media. The identification of the position occupied by science in the media, particularly television, would make it possible to check to what extent Brazilians' demand for this kind of information is met.…”

Media coverage and government policy of nuclear power in the People's Republic of China

“…Previous studies on the media coverage of controversial topics have revealed that manipulation of information in the media generally aims to benefit more powerful groups (Herman and Chomsky, 1988). This suggests that the government mainly decides what the media reports (Takahashi, 2011). Therefore, this study attempts to further examine government's impact on the media.…”

Pacific Journalism Monographs No 3: Kiribati media, science and politics

“…The body of literature is growing significantly, for example, in the United States (see Antilla, 2005;McComas & Shanahan, 1999;, the United Kingdom (Garvin, 2009;Carvalho, 2005;Carvalho & Burgess, 2005;Taylor & Nathan, 2002), British Columbia in Canada (Gunster, 2011), France (Brossard, Shanahan & McComas, 2004), New Zealand (Wilson, 2000;Dispensa & Robert, 2003;Kenix, 2008), Australia (Bacon, 2011;Henderson-Sellers, 1998;McManus, 2000), Japan (Sampei and Aoyagi-Usui, 2009), Peru (Takahashi, 2010), Finland (Dispensa & Robert, 2003), Spain (Leon et al, 2011), India (Boykoff, 2010) among others. These studies examine diverse aspects of journalism such as objectivity, norms, bias, structure (Boykoff, 2007a(Boykoff, , 2007bBoykoff andBoykoff, 2004, 2007;Shanahan & Good 2000;Smith, 2005) and media framing (Antilla, 2005;Takahashi, 2010) and examine the weaknesses and strengths of media coverage in the West (Boykoff & Roberts, 2007), with a few studies focused on foreign media reporting about low lying islands (Day, 2010;Cameron, 2011).…”