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- Agin, Sol, et al.
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Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993-2018 : Geographically Biased, Theoretically Narrow, and Methodologically Limited
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 15:4, s. 431-446
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change communication spans multiple disciplines which in many cases have insufficient understanding of each other's research traditions and, therefore, there has not been a solid interdisciplinary debate. This makes it hard not only to survey the field at large but also to pinpoint further studies which are needed to bridge these knowledge divides. The aim of this systematic literature review is to shed a broader light on the field of environmental and climate change communication and to make possible research gaps more apparent. Through an extensive quantitative content analysis of journal articles (N= 407), this study provides an understanding of the methodological, theoretical, and geographical approaches within the field. The findings show that a typical study within the field is a quantitative content analysis of traditional news media in the West. We have also uncovered some important insufficiencies of the search engines commonly used when carrying out literature reviews.
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- Anderson, Deb, et al.
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Fanning the Blame: Media Accountability, Climate and Crisis on the Australian “Fire Continent”
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 12:7, s. 928-941
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper raises questions of media coverage of “compounded crises” related to extreme weather disaster, in the context of urgent calls to address the implications of a changing climate. Through media analysis, it examines the ways debate over bushfire protection policy was framed and made culturally meaningful, thereby politically consequential, in the wake of the worst bushfires in modern Australian history, Black Saturday (2009). The fires, in which 173 people died, led to a Royal Commission and fierce debate over the use of prescribed burning to reduce bushfire hazard. Longitudinal analysis of local, state and national mainstream media coverage (2009–2016) reveals blame games that targeted environmentalists and the government, which near-silenced meaningful discussion of the complexity of fire science, impacts of climate change on weather conditions, and calls for adaptation. By exploring the media’s constitutive role in crisis response, the paper highlights the legacy and potency of ideological conflict that shapes the media-policy nexus in Australia.
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- Andersson, Linus, 1979-
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Where Technology Goes to Die : Representations of ElectronicWaste in Global Television News
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - Philadelphia : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 11:2, s. 263-275
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes how electronic waste (e-waste) gets represented in television news stories. The main objective is to present a perspective on how a “low-frequency” emergency (i.e. a lengthy and ongoing state of environmental emergency) is presented as a newsworthy issue. Drawing on literature on televised “distant suffering,” the article engages in a multimodal text analysis of four newsstories about e-waste. The findings show how on-location reports from e-waste dumping sites make use of sublime imagery in the visual representations; how e-waste dumping sites are presented as strange spaces, with no clear and comprehensible history; and finally, that the representations suggest an ambivalence and uncertainty when it comes to agency (who is responsible and what can be done?). The article ends with a discussion of the implications of this mode of representation and its effectiveness in eliciting an appropriate response to the harms caused by e-waste. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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- Ballantyne, Anne Gammelgaard, 1981-, et al.
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Localizing Climate Change : Nordic Homeowners' Interpretations of Visual Representations for Climate Adaptation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; :5, s. 638-652
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, effort has been put into developing various forms of climate visualization to create opportunities for people to explore and learn about local climate change risks and adaptation options. However, how target audiences make sense of such climate visualization has rarely been studied from a communication perspective. This paper analyses how Nordic homeowners made sense of a specific climate visualization tool, the VisAdapt™ tool. Involving 35 homeowners from three cities in 15 group test sessions, this study analyses the interpretive strategies participants applied to make sense of and assess the relevance of the visualized data. The study demonstrates that participants employed a set of interpretive strategies relating to personal experience and well-known places to make sense of the information presented, and that critical negotiation of content played an important role in how participants interpreted the content.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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Foreign, domestic, and cultural factors in climate change reporting : Swedish media's coverage of wildfires in three continents
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 13:3, s. 381-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines domestic media’s coverage of foreign wildfires from a climate change perspective. It explores Swedish newspapers’ coverage of wildfires in Australia, the Mediterranean region and the USA during a three-year period (February 2013–March 2016), focusing on how and to what extent climate change is viewed as an underlying cause. A central result is that climate change is mentioned far more often in the case of Australian wildfires than of fires in the other two regions. Another finding is that the climate change issue became more prominent after a severe domestic wildfire in 2014. These observations are also examined qualitatively through a combined frame and discourse study where the importance of foreign news values, the use of foreign sources, cultural proximity/distance, and domestication procedures are analyzed. In conclusion, foreign, domestic, and cultural factors in climate change reporting in relation to extreme events are further discussed.
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- Betzold, Carola, 1984, et al.
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Press Briefings in International Climate Change Negotiations
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-4032. ; 10:5, s. 575-592
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Press conferences are an important element of a government's communication strategy at climate change summits. From a theoretical perspective, press conferences should serve two main functions: exerting pressure in negotiations and informing the public. These functions correspond to two logics of action: a logic of consequence where governments use press conferences as negotiation tools and a logic of appropriateness where governments organize press conferences to increase transparency. Based on new data from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change archives, we find limited support for these two logics of action. Neither democracies, which, we argue, are more likely to follow a logic of appropriateness, nor vulnerable countries, which are more likely to follow a logic of consequence, organize systematically more press conferences. Other factors, such as capacity and a government's function in the negotiation structure, seem to play a more important role.
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- Boholm, Åsa, 1953
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Speaking of risk: Matters of context
- 2009
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-4032. ; 3:3, s. 335-354
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The risk communication (RC) field is dominated by the practical and normative sociotechnical aim of improving communication on risk (CR), especially from the viewpoint of regulatory agencies and government administrations. Despite some change of scope and orientation over the past 30 years, two theoretical ideas have persisted: the subjective - objective risk dichotomy and the transmission (also known as code) model of communication. This theoretical legacy makes context a blind spot in RC. The study of CR themes should consider (1) the socially constructed nature of risk and (2) communication as a situated social practice of information sharing. Results of a case study of public participation in a controversial railway tunnel project in the south of Sweden, offer lessons for future research pointing to crucial contextual dimensions of CR. It is argued that the variable ontology of risk, the constitutive nature of power relationships and the practical rationality of actors must be taken into account in research on the social CR.
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- Butros, Deniz, et al.
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Solidarity versus Security : Exploring Perspectives on Climate Induced Migration in UN and EU policy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication RENC. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 15:6, s. 842-856
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Migration has accelerated at the nexus of global warming and geopolitical unrest in vulnerable regions, putting the resilience of societies under pressure in numerous ways. The number of forced displacements in the world has increased significantly in the recent decade, and an estimated 22.5 million people have left their homes due to climate change since 2008. Most of this migration has remained internal and regional, but who will move, where and in what numbers in future is still debated. How the relationship between climate change and migration is viewed and described by influential policy making bodies has consequences for what kind of actions that are proposed to deal with the phenomenon and thereby also for the lives of those who are most affected by the negative effects of climate change globally. Is migration considered a problem or a solution, and for whom? Focusing on years during which forced displacement increased significantly, this article explores what perspectives on climate induced migration are expressed in UN and EU official policy documents, and what response measures are suggested. The results show that both actors consider climate change as potentially leading to increased cross-border migration. UN perspectives tend to be human security-oriented while the EU perspectives tend to focus on state security. Response measures discussed tend to focus on support to climate adaptation.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 12:1
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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From the Gezi Park Protests to the Akbelen Forest : Care in the Context of Democracy and Political Dissent
- 2024
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 18:1-2, s. 173-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this essay, a brief history of environmental protests in Turkey will be followed by a discussion connected to two central frameworks: the logic of extractivism and care. Specifically, we argue that analysis of events such as the recent protests in the Akbelen Forest, just as the Gezi Park protests over a decade ago, need to account for the fact that a great deal of environmentalism and environmental activism is linked to broader social and political critique, particularly in countries such as Turkey with what is described as a “neo-authoritarian” or “new authoritarian” administration. We argue that these events and the ways in which they have materialized point to the need to pay further attention to intersections such as narrated space and spaces of narrativity, in this particular case, vis-à-vis care, democracy and political dissent.
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