Front page or “buried” beneath the fold? Media coverage of carbon capture and storage

Boyd, Amanda D.; Paveglio, Travis B.

doi:10.1177/0963662512450990

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“…We conclude that conflict and controversy did not play a role in the media stories for an extended period, and the absence of controversy may help to explain the low (or under-) reporting. This finding supports and adds to Boyd and Paveglio's (2014) study concluding that framing in media articles not only brings the issue to the attention of citizens, but also can affect public views and opinions-a situation that is particularly relevant for controversial emerging technologies.…”

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“…However, in Texas, Ohio, and Oklahoma, hundreds of earthquakes (magnitude even over M = 3 on the Richter scale) have been registered, and it has long been known that such earthquakes are a consequence of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) processes to stimulate oil production (Ellsworth 2013). From a content analysis of the media coverage about carbon capture and storage, Boyd and Paveglio (2014) concluded that framing in media articles not only brings the issue to the attention of citizens, but also that it can affect public views and opinionsan issue that is particularly relevant for controversial emerging technologies.…”

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Dynamics and tipping point of issue attention in newspapers: quantitative and qualitative content analysis at sentence level in a longitudinal study using supervised machine learning and big data

Opperhuizen

Schouten

2020

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This study aims to provide a more sensitive understanding of the dynamics and tipping points of issue attention in news media by combining the strengths of quantitative and qualitative research. The topic of this 25-year longitudinal study is the volume and the content of newspaper articles about the emerging risk of gas drilling in The Netherlands. We applied supervised machine learning (SML) because this allowed us to study changes in the quantitative use of subtopics at the detailed sentence level in a large number of articles. The study shows that the actual risk of drilling-induced seismicity gradually increased and that the volume of newspaper attention for the issue also gradually increased for two decades. The sub-topics extracted from media articles during the low media attention period, covering factual information, can be interpreted as a part of episodic frame patterns about the drilling and its consequences. However, a sudden major shift in newspaper attention can be observed in 2013. This sudden disjointed expansion in the volume of media attention on this large-scale technology occurred after a governmental authority classified the drilling-induced earthquakes as a safety issue. After the disjointed issue expansion, safety and decision making were the main subtopics linked to the thematic frames, responsibility, conflict, human interest, and morality. We conclude that SML is a promising tool for future analysis of the growing number of publicly available digitalized textual big datasets, particularly for longitudinal studies and analysis of tipping points and reframing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dynamics and tipping point of issue attention in newspapers: quantitative and qualitative content analysis at sentence level in a longitudinal study using supervised machine learning and big data

Opperhuizen

Schouten

2020

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“…The role of media is especially interesting in debates on controversial emerging technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Studies have more often focused on how media has framed and represented CCS in country‐specific data (Boyd & Paveglio, ; Nerlich & Jaspal, ; van Alphen, van Voorst tot Voorst, Hekkert, & Smits, ), but a comparative approach has also been applied (Buhr & Hansson, ; Dowd, Ashworth, Rodriguez, & Jeanneret, ). This technology, which is claimed to be one potential means of climate change mitigation, is operational in 12 large‐scale projects around the world (GCCSI, ), but deployment has not advanced as quickly as anticipated.…”

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

Kojo¹,

Innola²

2017

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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General media coverage is one national level contextual factor influencing communication, public perceptions, and the acceptance of technology. In this study, Finnish newspaper articles with references to carbon capture and storage (CCS) from over a nearly two decades (1996–2015) were analyzed in order to gain an understanding of the scale of news coverage and level of public debate on CCS technology. The data included a total of 282 articles from 10 different newspapers. Four temporal phases according to the frequency of references to CCS were identified. These are as follows: 1996–2003, practically no coverage; 2004–2006, rising awareness; 2007–2010, peak of print media attention; and 2011–2015, decreasing interest. The volume of data seemed to follow the international issue‐attention cycle of CCS. The long time period revealed an obvious peak in media attention but this was much lower than in some other countries. Industry, administration, and experts were the actor groups which gained most frequently media attention. Fourteen percent of the data were deemed to be negatively disposed toward CCS technology. By covering a long search period, the paper contributes the studies focused on media attention to CCS at national level. The study confirms earlier results indicating the dropping of CCS from the print media agenda after 2009.

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“…Media analyses serve as a useful method for examining public discourse about new technologies by examining their benefits as well as risks [13]. Relatively little research has examined media representations of either bioenergy or CCS [14][15][16]. Because BECCS is in its infancy, no research has done so.…”

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News Media Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage and Biomass: Perceptions and Possibilities

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Abstract:In the US, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received most of its attention when coupled with the fossil fuel industry as a mitigation strategy for climate change. CCS, which is constituted as a broad suite of capture and sequestration technologies and techniques, does not preclude coupling with other energy industries such as bioenergy (bioenergy and CCS or BECCS). In this paper, we examined news media coverage of CCS and biomass individually in locations throughout the US where these technologies are being explored to determine how they are perceived and what possibilities lay in their coupling for climate change mitigation. From our analyses, we found that individually, both CCS and biomass are perceived generally as beneficial for energy development by the news media, though they are not often mentioned in combination. Combined references do, however, speak to their value for climate change mitigation and as an alternative to fossil fuels.

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Front page or “buried” beneath the fold? Media coverage of carbon capture and storage

Cited by 31 publications

References 39 publications

Dynamics and tipping point of issue attention in newspapers: quantitative and qualitative content analysis at sentence level in a longitudinal study using supervised machine learning and big data

Dynamics and tipping point of issue attention in newspapers: quantitative and qualitative content analysis at sentence level in a longitudinal study using supervised machine learning and big data

Carbon Capture and Storage in the Finnish Print Media

News Media Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage and Biomass: Perceptions and Possibilities

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