Stop the Frack! Exploring the Media’s Portrayal of the Social Representation of an Anti-Fracking Protest at the Baltic Sea

Bigl, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/17524032.2019.1651367

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“…Finally, the indirect perception-conductive perception-scientific perception-local government notificationconductive perception path also had a major impact on climate change risk perception (10.420%). In short, the conductive perception link was at the end of the climate change risk perception information channel, which was consistent with related studies believing that the conductive perception of community emergency drills had the greatest impact on the climate change risk perception index [31]. However, the first-end of climate change risk perception information channels was the indirect perception method in most cases.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Research on Information Channel of Climate Change Risk Perception of Shaanxi People

Xue¹,

Zhou²

2021

JRACR

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We take Shaanxi Province as the research area, aiming at exploring the information channel or path of climate change risk perception of Shaanxi people. It is desirable for us to carry out information channel or path classification of climate change risk perception based on survey data involving 5493 people in Shaanxi Province. Firstly, we use a Back Propagation (BP) neural network method to fit the information path of climate change risk perception. Secondly, a decision tree model is adopted to classify information channels of climate change risk perception. The results show that 300 neurons are needed in the information channel of climate change risk perception of Shaanxi people. The first path which influences climate change risk perception of Shaanxi people is as follows: indirect perception-direct perception-indirect perception-conductive perception. The second path is indirect perception-conductive perception. The third path is as below: indirect perception-direct perception-conductive perception, which also impacts climate change risk perception. According to varying information channels or paths of climate change risk perception, the public can formulate different risk management strategies to improve the level of climate change risk perception.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Research on Information Channel of Climate Change Risk Perception of Shaanxi People

Xue¹,

Zhou²

2021

JRACR

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“…After media initially portrayed fracking in the Baltic Sea positively (highlighting economic benefits and calling fracking 'stimulation'), they shifted their coverage after advocacy groups reacted negatively to that coverage. The new post-backlash framing reflected pro-environmental values more closely (Bigl, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, living in or experiencing coastal environments can help develop environmental values, understandings about marine environments (Schweizer, Davis & Leigh Thompson, 2013), and issues, making them more likely to consume news about these topics and support restoration efforts (Cicin‐Sain & Knecht, 2000; Steel, Lovrich & Fomenki, 2005). Bigl's (2020) study emphasized the importance of popularity in media coverage of ocean issues. After media initially portrayed fracking in the Baltic Sea positively (highlighting economic benefits and calling fracking ‘stimulation’), they shifted their coverage after advocacy groups reacted negatively to that coverage.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Zealand's media and the crisis in the ocean: News norms and scientific urgency

Armoudian

Stevens

Stephenson

et al. 2023

Aquatic Conservation

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1. To date, no studies have analysed New Zealand's media coverage of oceanrelated threats, potential harms, or sources used for their coverage. This is concerning given that marine media coverage is linked to public support, awareness of conservation issues, and policymaking.2. This research helps fill this gap, examining all ocean-related articles 2 weeks before and after the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report's release on the oceans and cryosphere.3. It first analyses the media's reporting of threats, potential harms arising from the threats, and the sources on whom journalists relied and gave voice, then it tests a report of global significance for influence on reportage.4. Second, it examines whether the threats covered by media align with scientists' main concerns (from the IPCC report and a survey of New Zealand scientists). 5.In contrast to previous studies on media sources for environmental conservation, this study found that journalists in New Zealand relied considerably on scientists as key sources. However, it found that coverage of ocean-related threats did not match scientists' main concerns. 6. Finally, the research found that the IPCC report appeared to influence coverage in two areas: reporting on threats to island nations, and multiple potential harms.Otherwise, New Zealand's media covered the IPCC report as any other news item, reporting on it and then shifting to other matters.7. The lack of coverage on primary scientific concerns and that a globally significant momentous report did not dramatically impact the marine media landscape is problematic for conservation of ocean habitats, species, and broader environmental and societal outcomes owing to poor understandings by policymakers and the public, which can lead to inaction and policy failures.8. The potential reasons and solutions to advance communication of marine conservation issues for a more educated and mobilized public are explored.

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“…The implicit ideological freight of the concept of social representations, their function in shaping social reality and in creating (more or less) consensual representational fields, make SRT a useful tool for examining the contentious politics of social protest. However, the theoretical sociopsychological framework of SRT has been used in relatively few studies to this day on this specific field (Batel & Castro, 2014;Bigl, 2019;Di Giacomo, 1980;Howarth, 2014;Zamperini et al, 2012). Di Giacomo's (1980) quantitative study on the rise and decline of an active student movement in Belgium is one of the first to address the relationship between social representations, collective action, and ideology.…”

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Young Greeks’ Social Representation of Protest: Dialogical Structure and Ideological Function

Vlazakis

Baka

Figgou

2022

International Review of Social Psychology

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Public protest has been a controversial form of political participation which aims to intervene in the socio-political status quo by promoting or preventing social change. The political and social life in Greece has been greatly influenced by public protests which, in several cases, acted as regulators and drivers of change. The main interest of this study is to examine public protest as an object of social representation of young Greeks in the current socio-political and historical context. Obtaining data from focus groups, we use recent dialogical approaches to Social Representation Theory to examine the content, the emerging identities, as well as the structure and the ideological function of protest representation amongst young Greeks. Our findings indicate that protests' representation is conceptualized on the basis of dialectical antitheses and contradictory identities; the idealistic perception of public protest is based on the conceptualization of the identity of active citizen and purposeful protesters, while the violent side of protests emerges from the identity of rioters and protest armies. We argue that these main elements of protest representation also determine its internal structure. In addition, they have an implicit ideological function as they express the way in which young Greeks discuss, negotiate, assimilate and redefine public protest under their set of beliefs and their worldview concerning social reality.

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Stop the Frack! Exploring the Media’s Portrayal of the Social Representation of an Anti-Fracking Protest at the Baltic Sea

Cited by 4 publications

References 78 publications

Research on Information Channel of Climate Change Risk Perception of Shaanxi People

Research on Information Channel of Climate Change Risk Perception of Shaanxi People

New Zealand's media and the crisis in the ocean: News norms and scientific urgency

Young Greeks’ Social Representation of Protest: Dialogical Structure and Ideological Function

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