Counteracting Climate Science Politicization With Effective Frames and Imagery

Bolsen, Toby; Palm, Risa; Kingsland, Justin T.

doi:10.1177/1075547019834565

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“…Often times in communication, presented frames are phrases, stories or images that activate such categories. However, the current research shows that a name can effectively act as a frame by itself [see also Bolsen, Palm and Kingsland, 2019], and even do so when there is no additional external information provided. As such, it is not so much external information that is being framed and processed, but the process of trying to find an answer to the question "what is it?…”

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Naming is framing: the effects of a technological name on the interpretation of a technology

Boersma¹,

Poortvliet²,

Gremmen³

2019

JCOM

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In this article, we follow up on food scientists' findings that people judge new food technologies and related products (un)favourably immediately after just hearing the name of the technology. From the reactions, it appears that people use their attitudes to technologies they know to evaluate new technologies. Using categorization theory, in this study we have found that, by triggering associations with a familiar technology, a name of the new technology can be enough to determine emerging attitudes. Comparison between the technology used for categorization and another familiar technology had a slight influence on the attitude formation process. AbstractPublic perception of science and technology; Public understanding of science and technology Keywords https://doi.

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Naming is framing: the effects of a technological name on the interpretation of a technology

Boersma¹,

Poortvliet²,

Gremmen³

2019

JCOM

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“…A voluminous literature demonstrates that exposure to an asymmetric one-sided frame (i.e., exposure to just one argument, see Chong & Druckman, 2007b ), such as a statement highlighting the scientific consensus on an issue, can move an audience’s beliefs in the direction of the framed message ( Bolsen & Druckman, 2018 ; Bolsen et al, 2018 ; Bolsen et al, 2019a , 2019b ; Bolsen & Shapiro, 2018 ; Lewandowsky, Gignac, & Vaughan, 2013 ; van der Linden et al, 2019 ). Individuals may learn about the origins of COVID-19 through exposure to stories that communicate either what most scientists believe (i.e., zoonotic transmission) or through exposure to conspiratorial claims (e.g., the virus was created in a research laboratory in China).…”

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Framing the Origins of COVID-19

Bolsen

Palm

Kingsland

2020

Science Communication

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Conspiracy theories have flourished about the origins of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes an acute respiratory syndrome (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) in humans. This article reports the results from a study that evaluates the impact of exposure to framed messages about the origins of COVID-19. We tested four hypotheses: two focusing on its origins as either zoonotic or human-engineered and two concerning the impacts of origin beliefs on the desire to penalize China or support increased funding for biomedical research. The results accentuate the importance of finding ways to combat the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories related to this global pandemic.

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“…The policy experts often mentioned the classical but critical notion of environmental uncertainty. Climate change has become particularly susceptible to this kind of politicization (Bolsen et al 2019). One of the assertions made by the so-called sceptics against the scientific consensus on climate change is that because climate science is so uncertain, there is no basis for taking action (Meah 2019).…”

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“…They stressed that climate change includes a lot of uncertainties, to the point that it is impossible to set environmental factors apart from other factors of migration. The politicization of science occurs when the inherent uncertainty of science is emphasized to cast doubt on scientific consensus (Bolsen et al 2019).…”

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Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Ebrahimi

Ossewaarde

2019

Social Sciences

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Policy experts play an important role in coping with the climate change–human migration nexus. They offer expert solutions to decision makers, and thus, they contribute to de-politicizing the issue. The aim of this paper is to find out how different policy experts envision the climate change–human migration nexus. The Netherlands has been nominated as the seat of a Global Center of Excellence for climate Adaptation and aims to become a Global Center of Excellence in the water safety and security domain. Policy experts were selected based on a structured nominee process. We conducted semistructured interviews with policy experts and analyzed policy expert documentation. Interview transcripts and documents were examined via a coding frame. Unlike policymakers who link climate change and conflict, policy experts stress the economic and political factors of migration in which climate change issues happen. The major difference between the view of policymakers and policy experts on the link between climate change and human migration emerges from the frame of the climate refugee. In the context of the climate change–human migration nexus, policy experts act as a countervailing power that prevents the political exploitation of the nexus into a security issue.

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Counteracting Climate Science Politicization With Effective Frames and Imagery

Cited by 59 publications

References 80 publications

Naming is framing: the effects of a technological name on the interpretation of a technology

Naming is framing: the effects of a technological name on the interpretation of a technology

Framing the Origins of COVID-19

Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

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