Media coverage of climate change and global warming en El País, El Mundo y La Vanguardia

Fernández-Reyes, Rogelio; Raigada, José Luís Piñuel; Mariño, Miguel Vicente

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“…The Newspaper attention was at its highest peak in the months of November and December, suggesting the important role of focusing political events (i.e., COPs) in the coverage of climate change. Previous studies have revealed similar trends in major newspapers across Europe (e.g., Gunster 2011, Lyytimäki 2011, Fernández-Reyes et al 2015, Robbins 2018.…”

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Understanding broadsheet newspaper attention to climate change objective facts in South Africa

Mulaudzi

Kioko²

2022

Environ. Res. Commun.

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South Africa is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts and risks of climate change in Africa. News media outlets play an important role in communicating content relating to climate change. Newspaper attention devoted to climate change has been more prolific in the Global North. To understand the portrayal of climate change science in news media in South Africa, this study examined objective facts coverage in three leading broadsheet newspapers between 1996 and 2016. Overall, this study found that newspaper coverage of climate change was at the highest peak in 2011. The findings revealed that attention to objective facts (observed climate trends, climate change impacts, and climate change projections) was not significant over a 20-year period. We found that newspaper attention to objective facts generally dominated coverage in 2006 and 2007. Our findings indicate that newspaper attention to objective facts significantly decreased over the years. We also found that climate politics was the most dominant topic in the news articles. This study concludes that there is a considerable disconnect between the print media and objectivity when reporting climate change news stories in South Africa.

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Understanding broadsheet newspaper attention to climate change objective facts in South Africa

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Kioko²

2022

Environ. Res. Commun.

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“…As already discussed in Section 3, the 'public scepticism' about climate change (Zhou, 2015), rather than showing an 'architectural weakness' (Díaz, 2009, pág. 7) of mass media communications, should be interpreted as another, distinct, autonomous, and non-comparable, construction of reality (Görke & Scholl, 2006;Luhmann, 2007b), while still retaining relevance for politics or science, due to the impact it may have on the feasibility of energy projects.…”

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“…Conceptualizing public opinion through notions such as public scepticism (Zhou, 2015) or understanding/information gaps (Nisbet, Cooper & Ellithorpe, 2014) seems to presuppose the objectivity of scientific understanding, something which has become quite difficult to maintain within the current crisis of positivist epistemologies (Guba & Lincoln, 1994); moreover, this suggests a one-dimensional understanding of public opinion, which does not value its internal differences, and implies an erroneous opposition between scientific rationality, on the one hand, and public ignorance or irrationality, on the other (Kurath & Gisler, 2009). …”

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“…In Chile, as in many other countries, energy is the sector with the highest contribution in terms of Greenhouse Gas emissions [GHG], the main causal factor of climate change (MAPS Chile, 2014). Combined to the urgency to reduce the country's dependence on imported fossil fuels and the opportunity to achieve significant environmental and social co-benefits, this has made it a priority forhttp://www.revistalatinacs.org/072paper/1216/66en.html Página 1220 (Moyano, Paniagua & Lafuente, 2009), the lack of trust on institutions and the relative importance attributed to the environment with respect to other issues (Zhou, 2015) and even the political orientation, cultural origin, income levels and education (Engels, Huether, Schaefer & Held, 2013).…”

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Environmental communication and non-conventional renewable energy projects. Content analysis of Chilean mass media

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Gómez²,

Klenner³

2017

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Introduction. We observe how mass media thematise Non-Conventional Renewable Energy projects [NCRE] in terms of relevance and treatment assigned to distinct sources and emerging thematic structures. Methodology. Mixed-approach content analysis of a sample of 100 Chilean digital press articles relating to NCRE, using the analytical framework of Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Theory. Results and Discussion. The predominance of solar and wind sources goes hand in hand with a low terminological clarity, which however allows mass media to build distinct thematic structures around social systems such as economy, science, politics and law. Environmental references are less frequent and shallower, privileging its evocative aspects with maximum linkage capacity. Conclusions. Instead than observing mass media as mere transmitters of rationalities external to them, more attention should be given to their ability to create realities and representing the (human and ecological) environment.

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“…Several studies have focused on the analysis of the communication of climate change in Spanish media: in television (León and Erviti, 2015), in press editorials (Blanco-Castilla et al, 2013), or in the main daily newspapers (Fernández-Reyes et al, 2015). Bailey et al (2014) compared linguistic preference in the coverage of climate change in Spain and the United States.…”

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Taking climate change seriously: An analysis of op-ed articles in Spanish press

2016

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In this article, we study the evolution of opinion genres regarding climate change in three Spanish newspapers ( El País, El Mundo, and ABC). Analyzing the op-ed articles in these newspapers, we observe a significant change in the evolution of opinion. While denialism was very present in conservative press in 2007, 7 years later it is almost absent from El Mundo, and its presence in ABC is much lower and inactive: this shows that scientific consensus has prevailed over time and Spanish denialism has weakened, exclusively supported by political arguments by the most conservative parties.

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Media coverage of climate change and global warming en El País, El Mundo y La Vanguardia

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Understanding broadsheet newspaper attention to climate change objective facts in South Africa

Understanding broadsheet newspaper attention to climate change objective facts in South Africa

Environmental communication and non-conventional renewable energy projects. Content analysis of Chilean mass media

Taking climate change seriously: An analysis of op-ed articles in Spanish press

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