Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security

Philo, Greg; Happer, Catherine

doi:10.4324/9780203380956

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“…Whilst both groups shared a cynicism about media institutions, and some recognition of media bias, there was a tendency for traditionalists to feel the need to invest some degree of trust somewhere. For some this was The Digger, but, in parallel to previous research (Philo and Happer, 2013), this was just as likely to be BBC reporting:…”

Section: Stage Two: Media Engagementmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…Hence, drawing on methodologies developed by the Glasgow University Media Group (Philo and Happer, 2013), our focus group process included immersing participants in a multi-media environment constructed around news reporting on community sanctions. This immediate environment facilitated exploration of their selection and evaluation of content.…”

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Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions

Happer

McGuinness

McNeill

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Crime, Media, Culture

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Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media and public understandings. This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis (drawing on sociology, media and communications and organisational studies) of the potential influence of media consumption practices on penal tastes among diverse participant groups. We aim to develop a clearer understanding of how these processes shape the public legitimacy of community sanctions. In particular, we report on original research employing innovative methodologies to explore the dynamic set of practices deployed by audiences in the process of making meaningful the media landscape on punishment and community sanctions. Our findings offer some confirmation of the primacy of the prison in the popular imagination; community sanctions' media profile is delimited by their perceived banality, in turn leading to confusion surrounding their purpose and potential. However, this study suggests that the legitimacy problem for community sanctions may be far more complex than 'newsworthiness'. Community sanctions, we argue, may be subject to appraisal in line with penal 'tastes' in which the function of moral censure is of central significance. However, we also uncover some evidence about how traditional markers of taste are disrupted by processes of media convergence (of appropriation, circulation, response) in ways which can operate to limit deliberation even amongst more liberal audience groups, and conversely open it up amongst those who are more punitive.

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Section: Stage Two: Media Engagementmentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions

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McGuinness

McNeill

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“…More recently, Philo and Happer (2013) have demonstrated similar proliferation-of-voices trends in climate change reporting, while also noting growing evidence (Painter, 2011 andPainter and Ashe, 2012) What is argued here , is that research needs to go significantly further to un-cover and to understand how balances/biases in media coverage of science result not only from journalistic practices and values, but that these practices/values are also skilfully manipulated/exploited by sources keen to promote their particular views. What is needed then is perhaps not so much further research on the values and practices of science journalism, about which a great deal -firmly anchored in a long and well developed tradition of journalism research generally -is now known, but an enhanced focus on the increasing professionalization and strategic organisation of science communication in the public sphere.…”

Section: Accuracy In News Journalism Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…routine day-to-day coverage versus news reporting of focus events such major international summits). Shehata and Hopmann (2012) and Philo and Happer (2013), in their reviews of research on climate change communication, capture these dimensions particularly well. They show the 'balance as bias' patterns identified in research of the early part of the present century changing later to a more accurate reflection of the scientific consensus on climate change, only for the consensus view to be questioned again with renewed vigour around the socalled Climategate scandal and the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009.…”

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confidence: 99%

The changing uses of accuracy in science communication

Hansen

2016

Public Underst Sci

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Tracing its historical trajectories, this article explores the preoccupation with accuracy in science communication research and explores the resurgence in the present century of concerns about accuracy, balance and impartiality in public communication of science. It is argued that many of the original insights from news and journalism research are still relevant and important if re-formulated in constructionist terms about voice, access and claimsmaking, and asking: in whose interest? Key to this is also the recognition of a radically changing -technologically, economically and professionally -media and communications environment, with implications for science journalism and a very different dynamic regarding the range and type of actors involved in discursively constructing opinions and information about controversial science and expertise. The article concludes with proposals for future emphases and directions in research broadly concerned with accuracy in science communication.

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“…Yet, studies on the effects of using one or the other give dissonant results (Dunlap and Brulle, 2015). This correlates with research undertaken since 1994 (Bostrom) until the most recent research (Philo and Happer, 2013) which has shown that a large amount of the public conflates ozone layer depletion and climate change. According to Ungar (2000) the conflation of the two topics is an example of syncretism, consisting in assimilating new information with pre-existing knowledge.…”

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How Distant is Climate Change? Construal Level Theory Analysis of German and Taiwanese Students Statements

Guttry

Döring

Ratter

2017

International Journal of Asian Social Science

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Article HistoryThe usefulness of Construal Level Theory to understand how people mentally represent climate change has been recognized by a number of authors in recent years. Yet, empirical studies that analyse both psychological distance and construal levels of climate change are still rare. We fill this gap by investigating the perceived geographical, temporal and social dimensions of climate change and by analyzing the construal levels employed by the participants of our research. Participants comprise two groups of university students (in Taiwan and in Germany) that carried out a 10 Statements Test on climate change. Results suggest that climate change is still perceived as distant. Nevertheless, we identified differences between the two groups in the construal levels employed. We reflect on the role of culture in the choice of different construal, on the potentials of Construal Level Theory to systematically analyse individuals´ understandings of climate change and we illustrate the implications of our results for future climate communication strategies. Contribution/ Originality:This study is one of very few studies which have investigated cultural differences in construal levels and psychological distances of climate change. To do so, it provides in depth empirical analysis of climate change perception based on Construal Level Theory.

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Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security

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Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions

Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions

The changing uses of accuracy in science communication

How Distant is Climate Change? Construal Level Theory Analysis of German and Taiwanese Students Statements

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