Manufacturing Consent: Rereading News on Four Climate Summits (2000-2012)

Pepermans, Yves; Maeseele, Pieter

doi:10.1177/1075547018798119

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“…These results are in line with previous research on this topic that states that accounts on environmental change are often treated in a non-politicised way, adopting widespread scientific climate change discourses from Western countries (Pepermans and Maeseele 2018). This is certainly also the case in this study, as only few respondents applied scientific discourses on climate changes to local problems and issues, linking general climate change discourses to the environmental changes they perceived in their surroundings.…”

Section: Intraregional Differencessupporting

confidence: 91%

Perceptions and Explanations of Environmental Change in Morocco

Praag

Ou‐Salah

Hut

et al. 2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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As demonstrated in the previous chapters, land in Morocco is mainly used for farming and pastoral activities. These activities are more vulnerable to the consequences of increased precipitation and drought due to climate change. Various modern and traditional adaptation strategies – among which migration to urban centres or abroad – have been used to deal with environmental changes. This suggests that a large share of inhabitants are in some way aware of the changes in their natural environment and already familiar with adaptation strategies (Schilling et al. 2012; Mertz et al. 2009). However, in most studies, researchers focusing on this topic do not relate this to people’s overall views on environmental change and the adaptation strategies employed by the actors involved. When they do, they hardly focus on people living in the MENA region (Nielsen and D’haen 2014); West-Africa (Mertz et al. 2010, 2012; Afifi 2011; De Longueville et al. 2020); DR Congo (Bele et al. 2014; Few et al. 2017); and India (Howe et al. 2014). The only exception is the study on Morocco by Nguyen and Wodon (2014); Wodon et al. 2014). Hence, it is unclear how these environmental changes are actually perceived and how they influence the ways people view and respond to them, and (actively) develop adaptation strategies to deal with such changes (cf. Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-61390-7_6). This is especially important since perceptions of environmental changes and the risks associated with them vary across and within cultures (Vedwan 2006; Mertz et al. 2009, 2010; Leclerc et al. 2013). Furthermore, there is a perception bias with regard to the perceived environmental changes, as some types of changes, such as rainfall patterns, are more easily noted and compared to others, such as temperature changes (Howe et al. 2014; Few et al. 2017; De Longueville et al. 2020; Bele et al. 2014). Additionally, people mainly remark on changes when these apply to their livelihood activities (Bele et al. 2014; Howe et al. 2014; Wodon et al. 2014; De Longueville et al. 2020). In current research and policymaking, ongoing debates on environmental migration and displacement too frequently assume that everyone perceives environmental change in a similar fashion. This becomes problematic in debates on environmental migration or climate refugees when environmental changes are assumed to automatically result in some kind of (forced) migration, leaving little space for the views and agency of the people involved (Stern 2000; McLeman and Gemenne 2018; Khare and Khare 2006; Rigby 2016).

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Section: Intraregional Differencessupporting

confidence: 91%

Perceptions and Explanations of Environmental Change in Morocco

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Ou‐Salah

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“…Previous quantitative research has indicated a link between levels of actor and viewpoint diversity (Masini et al, 2018), and qualitative studies have highlighted that alternative news outlets have a tendency to shed a different light on the news (Cissel, 2012;Pepermans & Maeseele, 2018). We expect that our results complement these findings, but the link between actor and viewpoint diversity in alternative news media has to be validated in future research.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Qualitative studies into the content of alternative news media show that their news coverage is different from the mainstream in terms of framing (Cissel, 2012), discourse (Pepermans & Maeseele, 2018) and journalistic role perceptions (Nygaard, 2019). The current literature focuses largely on the ways in which alternative news coverage is given form, how news stories are constructed and the general tone that is used to present certain issues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets

Buyens

Aelst

2021

Digital Journalism

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Alternative news media are largely independent players in the news environment, which allows them to publish more alternative, and possibly more radical, news content. Do they utilize their independence to display actors that are underrepresented in the mainstream news? And does it affect the actor diversity in their news coverage and the journalistic environment as a whole? This study scrutinizes the differences in actor diversity and actor presentation in articles published by alternative and mainstream news media to gauge if alternative media are more one-sided and if they contribute to the external actor diversity of the news environment. We analyze a sample of news articles on migration and social affairs published by two mainstream media and four alternative outlets. Despite limited differences in article-level actor diversity between alternative and mainstream news media, our findings highlight that right-wing and left-wing alternative media exploit their editorial independence differently to highlight other actor categories. Left-wing alternative news media present more civil society actors, while right-wing alternative news outlets pay more attention to right-wing politicians and parties. Thus, alternative news media are not that different in terms of internal actor diversity, but they modestly advance the external actor diversity in the news environment.

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“…How media and public discourses could shape perceptions of identity has been studied frequently using discourse analytical approaches by focusing on the "speaker positions" and "subject positions" constructed in public discourse (Benwell & Stokoe, 2006). In the field of climate change communication, some studies have built on this approach, or one of its variants (Boykoff, 2008;Pepermans & Maeseele, 2018;Weingart et al, 2000). However, despite many calls to focus on the subjectivities and identities portrayed, few studies, discourse-analytical and otherwise, have rigorously empirically investigated such portrayals in news coverage of climate change (Carvalho et al, 2017).…”

Section: Studying Mediated Identity Portrayalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Polarisation vs consensus-building: how US and German news media portray climate change as a feature of political identities

Tschötschel

2023

Environmental Politics

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Perceptions of climate politics often align with individual political leaning and associated media consumption patterns, pointing to a need for a finegrained understanding of how the media integrate climate change with political identities. This study presents an in-depth qualitative analysis of political identity portrayals from 229 articles published in six German and US news outlets during May-July 2019. The results show that the outlets consumed by left-and right-leaning audiences emphasise oppositional identity portrayals, portraying features that are likely to trigger a negative response towards political identities typically opposed by their recipients. The outlets with a more balanced or centrist audience offer a wider array of identity portrayals and emphasise policy questions over fundamental beliefs. Observed patterns differ considerably between Germany and the US, reflecting political and media system differences. The results add to understanding how the media contribute to political polarisation and consensus-building regarding climate change.

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Manufacturing Consent: Rereading News on Four Climate Summits (2000-2012)

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 publications

Perceptions and Explanations of Environmental Change in Morocco

Perceptions and Explanations of Environmental Change in Morocco

Alternative Media, Alternative Voices? A Quantitative Analysis of Actor Diversity in Alternative and Mainstream News Outlets

Polarisation vs consensus-building: how US and German news media portray climate change as a feature of political identities

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