Overcoming a Diabolical Challenge: Comparing journalists’ and researchers’ views on the performance of the media as a channel of climate change information

Rice, Martin; Henderson‐Sellers, A.; Walkerden, Greg

doi:10.1080/21548455.2013.824131

“…The most well-established barriers can be categorized as cultural (i.e., constructing and communicating knowledge about the world according to different principles) and structural (i.e., external obstacles stakeholders grapple with during joint work). Facilitators have mostly focused on interaction training, building institutional capacity, and developing commensurate understandings of professional timelines (e.g., Dunwoody et al, 2009; Rice et al, 2015); yet much work remains to understand not just what is working to support interactions but also why it is working in a given context. In most cases, improving interactions will require researchers and journalists to develop an understanding of their different epistemological positions as well as professional goals and constraints (Cooper & MacGregor, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Blending Research, Journalism, and Community Expertise: A Case Study of Coproduction in Research Communication

MacGregor

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Cooper

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2020

Science Communication

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The patterns of practice characterizing coproduction as an approach to research communication are explored through semistructured interviews with researchers ( N = 6), journalists ( N = 6), a community liaison ( N = 1), and editorial staff ( N = 2) who participated in the coproduction of podcasts. Despite various challenges encountered by participants, coproduction was a primarily positive experience that motivated the reexamination of taken-for-granted perceptions about each stakeholder’s role in research communication. Key questions are raised for future research about coproduction in research communication as well as suggestions for stakeholders planning or engaging in coproduction.

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“…Climate change has devastating implications for food and water supplies, energy production and use, ecosystem and species survival, human health, and social and political stability (IPCC, 2014;Stamm et al, 2000). It is a challenging policy dilemma that requires international cooperation of unprecedented complexity (Lorenzoni et al, 2007;Rice et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The news media is the largest source of climate change information for the public; however, due to ownership influence, retrenchment, and lack of expertise, the media often resorts to a number of journalistic "news values" that can misconstrue climate change science (Rice et al, 2015;Stamm et al, 2000). The media's representation of climate change has left the public with a flawed understanding of the current situation (Leiserowitz et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Social network analysis of climate change discussion on Twitter during COP21

Harris¹

2021

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The public is increasingly relying on Twitter for climate change information; however, to date, this social media platform is poorly understood in terms of how climate change information is shared. This study evaluates discussions on Twitter during the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to elucidate the social media platform’s role in communicating climate change information. For a five-day period, links embedded in a sample of tweets containing “#climatechange” were characterized, Twitter users were classified by the types of links they typically shared, and their degree centralities (the number of connections for each user) were measured. There was little skeptical content across all user categories; however, news links were more likely than non-news to contain content that is skeptical of climate change. Users who typically shared skeptical news links and users who typically shared non-skeptical non-news links exhibited a relatively high number of connections with other users.

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“…Climate change has devastating implications for food and water supplies, energy production and use, ecosystem and species survival, human health, and social and political stability (IPCC, 2014;Stamm et al, 2000). It is a challenging policy dilemma that requires international cooperation of unprecedented complexity (Lorenzoni et al, 2007;Rice et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The news media is the largest source of climate change information for the public; however, due to ownership influence, retrenchment, and lack of expertise, the media often resorts to a number of journalistic "news values" that can misconstrue climate change science (Rice et al, 2015;Stamm et al, 2000). The media's representation of climate change has left the public with a flawed understanding of the current situation (Leiserowitz et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social network analysis of climate change discussion on Twitter during COP21

Harris¹

2021

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The public is increasingly relying on Twitter for climate change information; however, to date, this social media platform is poorly understood in terms of how climate change information is shared. This study evaluates discussions on Twitter during the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to elucidate the social media platform’s role in communicating climate change information. For a five-day period, links embedded in a sample of tweets containing “#climatechange” were characterized, Twitter users were classified by the types of links they typically shared, and their degree centralities (the number of connections for each user) were measured. There was little skeptical content across all user categories; however, news links were more likely than non-news to contain content that is skeptical of climate change. Users who typically shared skeptical news links and users who typically shared non-skeptical non-news links exhibited a relatively high number of connections with other users.

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Overcoming a Diabolical Challenge: Comparing journalists’ and researchers’ views on the performance of the media as a channel of climate change information

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Blending Research, Journalism, and Community Expertise: A Case Study of Coproduction in Research Communication

Blending Research, Journalism, and Community Expertise: A Case Study of Coproduction in Research Communication

Social network analysis of climate change discussion on Twitter during COP21

Social network analysis of climate change discussion on Twitter during COP21

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