Media(ted) Climate Change in Africa and Public Engagement: A Systematic Review of Relevant Literature

Okoliko, Dominic Ayegba; M, de Wit

doi:10.1080/23743670.2020.1770114

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“…The historic and ongoing scarcity of climate communication research in the Global South has understandably been highlighted as an area of scholarly concern (Wright et al 2019, Okoliko andde Wit 2020).…”

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“…We selected lower-and upper-middle-income countries using World Bank (2022) income classification data, as they have traditionally lacked significant resources to address climate change. We did not select low-income countries due to limited data access throughout the study period (Okoliko and de Wit 2020) Hase et al 2021). From these lists, we sampled the highest circulating sources that also included access to the entire print article.…”

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“…The Western bias is further reflected by the dearth of scholarship on the media coverage of climate change in less developed countries. For example, Okoliko and de Wit (2020) show that scholarship on media coverage of climate change has only been examined in nine African countries. Our study shows that, even while developing countries may have fewer resources or training to inform climate coverage (Ajaero and Anorue 2018), reporting in the most vulnerable countries is highly nuanced and distinctive from common Western conceptualizations of climate change (Olausson and Berglez 2014).…”

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Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020)

McAllister,

Vedula,

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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News media influence how climate change is represented, understood, and discussed in the public sphere. To date, media and climate change research has primarily focused on Annex I countries, or treated non-Annex I countries as a homogenous bloc, despite the global nature of climate change and its geographically uneven impacts. This study uses a mixed-method approach, combining machine learning (topic modeling), econometrics, and qualitative analyses, to investigate newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries. We compiled a dataset of 95 216 news articles (dated between 2010 and 2020 from 50 sources) in 26 lower-middle and upper-middle income non-Annex I countries. In line with previous research results, we find that most common topics represented are international governance of climate change, the economics of energy transitions, and the impacts of climate change. Advancing current research understanding, we also demonstrate heterogeneity in coverage between non-Annex I countries and discover that a country’s vulnerability to climate change is positively associated with the diversity of topics (based on an article-level entropy index) portrayed by its domestic news media outlets.

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Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020)

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Africa has suffered disproportionately from the climate crisis, although it has done little to cause the crisis (Okoliko & de Wit, 2020). The climate crisis has had an impact on the environmental and social determinants of health across Africa, leading to devastating health effects (Atwoli et al, 2022).…”

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Digital media’s portrayal of climate change challenges during COP27 climate summit

Radwan,

Ayyad

2024

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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The study aims to investigate how digital media frame and present environmental issues and challenges of climate change in terms of four environmental and climate challenges: mitigation, adaptation, finance, and collaboration. The study also seeks to understand the extent that government bodies mobilize digital media to disseminate and promote necessary environmental challenges during COP27 climate summit in Egypt. The study uses the discourse analysis approach to define the key themes and issues that are portrayed and to understand how digital platforms reflected the conference agenda and climate change challenges. We analyzed 119 posts and news reports published on the conference website and Instagram account during November 2022. Results revealed that the platforms framed challenges of climate change during COP27 in many ways: the opportunity to find solutions, the urgency to address climate issues, and taking immediate actions in terms of transparency, adequate finance, ease of support flow, cooperation, participation, and youth involvement. Furthermore, the data indicate that the finance challenge has a strong relationship with all themes and challenges presented and discussed on the platforms. This indicates that African countries benefited from hosting COP27 by presenting their environmental concerns, the financial, and technological challenges they face in order to obtain global support.

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“…Certainly, the media can serve as a forum for discussing climate change and other issues of common concern, offering an interpretive system for societies (Schäfer et al, 2014;Schmidt et al, 2013). Its role in climate change communication helps shape how information about climate change is framed and accepted by the public (Okoliko & de Wit, 2020). The media's coverage of climate change as a human security threat, as acknowledged by the IPCC, has drawn global interest and influenced media trajectories in different jurisdictions (IPCC, 2014).…”

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Media, Soil Health and Climate Change Mitigation in Canada

Mundenga,

Odame

2024

Preprint

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This paper examines the interplay between media and the “social side of soils” whereby climate change action implicates individual and collective capacity to adapt, participate in groups or organizations, networks, and respond to challenges and opportunities across a system. The context examined here is Canadian agriculture, and soil health initiatives in the province of Ontario. Our review of relevant literature points to a knowledge gap on the role of the media in enabling climate action in the Canadian agricultural sector with a focus on soil management practices. This study conducted a media content analysis of 100 English-language news articles published between 2022 and 2024 and conducted 31 surveys with media professionals. Approximately one-quarter of the screened news articles contained any relevant coverage of soil health-related climate change mitigation issues. Journalist surveys identified the resource constraints on soil health media coverage with a wide range of traditional and Internet-based journalism on climate change issues, motivated particularly by crisis communication and one-off “parachute reporting”. Going forward, the engagement of key stakeholders of soil health in Canada such as farmers for media and communication about climate change mitigation needs attention. Key policy structures at the federal and provincial levels can help to make this happen.

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Media(ted) Climate Change in Africa and Public Engagement: A Systematic Review of Relevant Literature

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020)

Vulnerable voices: using topic modeling to analyze newspaper coverage of climate change in 26 non-Annex I countries (2010–2020)

Digital media’s portrayal of climate change challenges during COP27 climate summit

Media, Soil Health and Climate Change Mitigation in Canada

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