Attitudes Toward Wolves in the United States and Canada: A Content Analysis of the Print News Media, 1999–2008

Houston, Melanie J.; Bruskotter, Jeremy T.; Fan, David P.

doi:10.1080/10871209.2010.507563

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“…As such, facts can become distorted into partial truths in the media and researchers must be cautious to use newspapers if their aim is to determine accurate reflections of reality, for instance by gauging attitudes towards carnivores over time (e.g. Houston et al, 2010).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using online media, trends can be easily tracked over a long period of time (e.g. Houston, Bruskotter, & Fan, 2010). However, it is impossible to infer causality for variables and there is limited validity to extend conclusions to other contexts (Berg, 1998).…”

Section: Qualitative Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research has examined how the media cover topics such as "problem animals", incidents of attacks by carnivores, and how media coverage shapes attitudes towards predators (Alexander & Quinn, 2012;Gore & Knuth, 2009;Houston et al, 2010).…”

Section: Media and Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Houston et al (2010)'s approach for defining a frame's valence, financial mechanisms were deemed to have a positive valence where there was a clear positive message given about the scheme by the stakeholder (e.g. "conservancies allow benefits to flow to those who are living with wildlife"); negative messages included phrases such as "no conservancy member has ever been paid compensation"; ambivalent messages included phrases such as "wildlife impacts people and their properties but also brings benefits".…”

Section: Valence Of Framementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alexander and Quinn (2012) have used a grounded theory approach in quantitative content analysis to find common words used to describe the interactions between coyotes Canis latrans and humans, whereas Houston et al (2010) employed this method to understand whether there had been a change over time in the way wolves had been described in the media.…”

Section: Quantitative Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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Data‐mining social media platforms highlights conservation action for the Mediterranean Critically Endangered blue shark Prionace glauca

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1. The Mediterranean Sea represents an area of elevated risk of extinction for sharks, where data deficiency is a pervasive problem. 2. To compensate for such a paucity of information, this study investigated the use of social media content as a complementary approach to evaluate the distribution and habitat use of the Critically Endangered blue shark Prionace glauca in coastal waters, as well as public perceptions of the sharks. 3. Through social media data mining a total of 146 records, comprising 158 individual blue sharks approaching Italian coastal waters, have been recorded from 2011 to 2020.4. This study revealed that, over the past decade, blue sharks regularly visited Italian coastal habitats for extended periods of time. Differences in the temporal distribution of blue sharks by sex and size appear to be linked to reproductive activity. The higher number of adult females approaching the shore in spring and the increase in young-of-the-year (YOY) sightings in the following months possibly indicate parturition in coastal waters. Spatial analyses also showed that certain Italian coastal areas, such as those in Calabria and Puglia, were preferred coastal habitats for this species. 5. Results also indicate that social media platforms can be considered an evergrowing source of data on wildlife, which can shed light on the occurrence and distribution of endangered shark species in poorly known habitats. Furthermore, social media platforms should be used for awareness campaigns to educate the public, as this study showed that negative reactions to shark encounters remain widespread.

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Attitudes Toward Wolves in the United States and Canada: A Content Analysis of the Print News Media, 1999–2008

Cited by 110 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Estimating Poaching Opportunity and Potential

Data‐mining social media platforms highlights conservation action for the Mediterranean Critically Endangered blue shark Prionace glauca

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