FRAMING CLIMATE CHANGE A study of US and Swedish press coverage of global warming

被引：91
作者：
Shehata, Adam [1 ]
Hopmann, David Nicolas [2 ]
机构：
[1] Mid Sweden Univ, Ctr Polit Commun Res, S-85170 Sundsvall, Sweden
[2] Univ So Denmark, Dept Polit Sci, Ctr Journalism, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
来源：
JOURNALISM STUDIES | 2012年 / 13卷 / 02期
关键词：
climate change; framing; global warming; indexing; media coverage; news; FOREIGN-POLICY; NEWS;
D O I：
10.1080/1461670X.2011.646396
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
This comparative study investigates news coverage of climate change in the United States and Sweden. The main research question concerns the extent to which news coverage of climate change is influenced by domestic political elite discussion or the scientific consensus surrounding the issue. While there has been a widespread consensus in Sweden that climate change is (partly) caused by human activity and that there is an unquestionable need to take countermeasures, there has been substantial debate about the causes and the necessity of political action in the United States. Based on an extensive content analysis of 1785 articles over a 10-year period, as well as an intensive analysis of news coverage of the Kyoto and Bali summits, results show that media coverage is strikingly similar in these two countries, indicating a weak influence of national political elites on how climate change is framed in news coverage.
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页码：175 / 192
页数：18
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