Hurricanes and hegemony: A qualitative analysis of micro-level climate change denial discourses

Jacques, Peter; Knox, Claire Connolly

doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1189233

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“…In the United Kingdom, the “climategate” scandal concerning climate scientists at the University of East Anglia demonstrates the importance of beliefs about climate change and the lengths that people are prepared to go to (e.g., hacking emails) to attempt to discredit climate science. These conspiracy theories continue to resonate long after the claims were discredited (Anderegg & Goldsmith, ; Bricker, ; Jacques & Connolly‐Knox, ; McCright & Dunlap, ). There is ample evidence that conspiracy theorizing about climate change goes hand in hand with conspiracy thinking and science denial more generally (e.g., Lahrach & Furnham, ; Lewandowsky, Cook, Oberauer, Brophy, & Marriott, ; Lewandowsky, Oberauer, et al, ; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Oberauer, ; Uscinski, Douglas, & Lewandowsky, ; Uscinski and Olivella, , see also Rutjens, Heine, Sutton, & van Harreveld, 2017).…”

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Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Douglas

Uscinski

Sutton

et al. 2019

Political Psychology

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Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years, and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we ask three specific questions. First, what factors are associated with conspiracy beliefs? Our review of the literature shows that conspiracy beliefs result from a range of psychological, political, and social factors. Next, how are conspiracy theories communicated? Here, we explain how conspiracy theories are shared among individuals and spread through traditional and social media platforms. Next, what are the societal risks and rewards associated with conspiracy theories? By focusing on politics and science, we argue that conspiracy theories do more harm than good. We conclude by suggesting several promising avenues for future research.

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Section: Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Douglas

Uscinski

Sutton

et al. 2019

Political Psychology

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“…The master frame of 'climate change' and the consequential global dangers have been tremendously powerful for mobilizing political and public support for a variety of policy measures, in particular, the reduction of GHG emissions, to reverse global warming (Hoffman, 2011;Lakoff, 2010;Nisbet, 2009;Scrase & Ockwell, 2010;Spence & Pidgeon, 2010;Van de Velde, Verbeke, Popp, & Van Huylenbroeck, 2010). Likewise, framing climate change as a 'hoax' has become a powerful tool for the climate denial movement, which has legitimated positions defending carbon-heavy emissions (Jacquez & Connoly Knox, 2016).…”

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Worlds apart, worlds together: converging and diverging frames in climate and energy governance

Eriksson

Reischl

2018

Globalizations

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This paper argues that past research has overlooked how the way problems and solutions are framed contribute to a prevailing gap in the global governance of climate and energy. Empirically, this paper investigates the frames of energy and climate change as expressed in key documents from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA). Partly in contrast to past research, this paper finds (1) that there is a growing similarity in how the IPCC and IEA frame climate and energy; (2) that the IEA has gone from ignoring to acknowledging climate change and the transformation to a low-carbon energy system; and (3) that there is a prevailing difference in emphasis, whereas the IPCC only marginally discuss energy, while the IEA is still mainly talking about energy needs and fossil fuels even if climate change and renewables have entered their agenda.

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“…With the increased use of social media platforms, emergency management and crisis communication research has evolved to investigate and analyze the effectiveness of these tools. Researchers have studied the use of social media among minorities and vulnerable populations (Pennington-Gray et al 2013), by public information officers (Hughes and Palen 2012), to capture climate change denial discourses before, during, and after Superstorm Sandy (Jacques and Knox 2016), regarding knowledge management during the 2010 Haitian earthquake (Yates and Paquette 2011), critical crisis communication during the 2013 Westgate Mall terror attack in Kenya (Simon et al 2014), and social media crisis communication during the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings (Lui et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Unveiling cultures in emergency response communication networks on social media: following the 2016 Louisiana floods

2017

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While culture in emergency management has gained attention from the field of risk communication, few have systemically dealt with the nuances of general culture involved in the formation and differentiation of risk communication. To fill this gap, this research aims to first examine cultural nuances from the 2016 Louisiana flood response by primarily focusing on communications embedded in social media. The results from social network analysis and content analysis highlight that the flood response communication had strong cultural characteristics, highlighting the notion that of the cultures in Louisianafaith-based, local authority, and nonprofits-were the prominent cultural responders in the flood response communication. In particular, cultural similarity in both intra/inter group response communication was observed, with each communication group comprising actors who shared a common cultural background and spoke similar keywords.

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Hurricanes and hegemony: A qualitative analysis of micro-level climate change denial discourses

Cited by 65 publications

References 47 publications

Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Worlds apart, worlds together: converging and diverging frames in climate and energy governance

Unveiling cultures in emergency response communication networks on social media: following the 2016 Louisiana floods

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