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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Changing Arctic : Changing World
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In: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137266224 ; , s. 157-171
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Eyes on the Ice
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In: Le Monde diplomatique. - 1478-6591. ; :November, s. 10-11
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- A new report confirms that we are responsible for global warming. The continued melting of the Arctic’s sea ice is now widely seen to be true. So too is the idea that this has major global consequences. Is the situation reversible?
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope : Swedish News Framings of COP15 and COP21
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In: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 11:5, s. 682-699
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to offer an analysis of how two UN Conferences of Parties, COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 and COP21 in Paris 2015, were covered and debated in Swedish newspapers. Two national and two regional newspapers were selected for the study, and a qualitative frame analysis was conducted on 309 articles. A typology of frames applicable to science-related policy and climate change debates was used and its relevance for global climate summit context was discussed. Having territory in the Arctic region, indigenous populations affected by climate change measures, and political and public sensitivity to environmental issues, the climate debate has particular significance in the Swedish case. Findings indicate a trust in the role of national and supra-national governance to address climate change problems, but also that newspapers in Sweden maintained a focus on the global aspects of the two meetings, rather than framing them as surrogate battlefields for domestic politics.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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When the ice breaks : The Arctic in the media
- 2016
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In: Curating the Future. - New York : Routledge. ; , s. 242-251
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The climate change “debate” on a global level has been partly twisted into a distorted representation by journalists operating within norms of objectivity, broad political and economic contexts and institutional restraints. To the extent that our primary sources of information are the mainstream media, such skewed representations lead not only to a grossly problematic understanding of climate change in the public realm, but to public policies premised upon misinformed decision-making and, ultimately, to increased risks for our collective future. Mediated pro and con arguments have planted doubts and uncertainties in our minds over decades. Meanwhile, climate change has remained on the world political agenda and thus in the news, with ups and downs. Or is it the other way around: because it has been on the news, climate change has been on the world political and social agenda? There is clearly a feedback loop between the two and the dynamics are complex. What we know with certainty, however, is the fact that the planet is warming and that human activities are the primary reason. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovern - mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in September 2014 in Stockholm, confirmed that scientific fact with certainty. The report further stressed that only with radical cuts in emissions can we have influence on the ever-worsening progress of climate change’s effects. Yet, based on what we see in the media, we know that even at this point in time, the political will to tackle this planetary problem that threatens our future is unlikely to be forthcoming. The Arctic is clearly at the center of these developments. The IPCC report emphasized that the Arctic sea-ice cover is very likely to continue to follow a downward slide. The Arctic sea ice has already decreased significantly, both in thickness and extent, hitting a record low of 24 percent Arctic Ocean coverage in 2012-after the record low of 29 percent in 2007, which made the headlines. The 2007 coverage was 39 percent below the 1979-2000 average, and the media started to incorporate increasingly more dramatic imagery and narratives such as starving polar bears, disappearing local cultures and global disasters. As the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media note in relation to the latest storms in Great Britain, “historic” and “epic” are terms commonly being used to describe what the BBC has called “weeks and weeks and weeks” of continuous furious rains and flooding. There is no doubt that the Arctic of today, both in the mediated public and political realms, has gained new meaning and significance. It is the bellwether of climate change, an ever-changing present showcase for ominous future scenarios. It is also a region potent with commercial possibilities, and thus a hotbed of contested interests. Rich resources becoming available, new shipping routes and opportunities arising, and questions related to sovereignty and rights have all become part of the media discourse. Media stories have pointed to the Northern Sea Route, which connects Asia and Europe by way of the northern Russian coast, as the “New Panama Canal”, with the North Pole at the center of this New World. In 2012 we witnessed the deliberately spectacular voyage of the Chinese icebreaker, Snow Dragon, from Akureyri, Iceland, across the Arctic Ocean to Shanghai. Through such narratives and debates, the northern polar region has morphed into occupying a status of center from formerly being on the planetary margins. A new Arctic cartography, illustrated in photograph-like images originating from satellite data, has entered our social imaginary. The Arctic sea-ice minima of 2007 and 2012, combined with alarming messages from the IPCC, have made it clear that a fundamental change in our public understanding of climate change is necessary. Due to variability, the rate of change follows slower pace at times. Yet, at other times, the change can be fast and furious, catching us inadequately prepared to handle its consequences. 2013 did not bring yet another Arctic sea-ice minimum, and fed into denials of global climate change as well as the credibility of climate science and scientists. However, for the Arctic, the record sea-ice lows in 2007 and 2012 also have brought a shift in our understanding: continued shrinkage is seen as inevitable, and so are major regional and global transformations. In that sense, Arctic climate change has become a meta-event of the evolving global climate. As we will explore below, our society is a media-centric one where policy, politics, culture, economics and science-to name but a few areas-are interlinked through the media. The constant co-production of media and society means that media are both produced by and producing society and social norms. Arrows of simple cause and effect are not particularly interesting to draw. However, this does not make it less interesting to study, just more complex.
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Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change : When the Ice Breaks
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Arctic sea-ice reached record lows in 2007, and again in 2012. In the international news media, these moments were reflected via striking images of polar bears, crumbling ice chunks and the use of more alarmist metaphors about global climate change. Through these narratives, and despite the periodic disappearance of climate change from media reports due to issue fatigue, a sharper narrative of climate change has entered public discourse: a new global reality where the future is no longer a given. Going beyond media studies as well as descriptive or highly scientific accounts of the impacts of climate change in the Arctic, this book explores how both historical and contemporary mediations, scientific narratives and satellite technology simultaneously capture and reconstruct this new reality of the Anthropocene, where human activities shape the planet. By highlighting the linkages between science, media, environmental change and geopolitics, the informed contributors to the volume invite the reader to reflect on what is local and what is global in today's connected mediatized world.
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- Wormbs, Nina, 1968-, et al.
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The Arctic: When the ice breaks : Geopolitics, opportunity and museums
- 2013
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In 2007 and again in 2012, satellite imagery showed the Arctic sea-ice reaching record lows. In the international news media, striking images of polar bears and crumbling ice chunks were joined to alarmist metaphors about the disastrous impact of global climate change. In the far north itself, however, responses to rapidly diminishing sea-ice have been quite different, as new trade routes and business opportunities open up and communities re-make their identities in ways that incorporate global and local stories and objects. This panel considers the 2007 minimum and stories and objects it created, exploring some disjunctions and intersections between far north and metropolitan narratives, projects and collections.
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