Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid

Molek‐Kozakowska, Katarzyna

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2017.09.013

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“…[217][218][219][220][221] Reintroduced in the 2020 report with a revised methodology, the scientific indicator (indicator 5.3) tracks academic engagement with health and climate change in peer-reviewed journals, the premier source of high-quality research that provides evidence used by the media, the government, and the public. 218,222,223 The fourth indicator (indicator 5.4) focuses on the governmental domain, a key arena for driving the global response to climate change. This indicator tracks government engagement in health and climate change at the UN General Assembly, where the UN General Debate provides a platform for national leaders to address the global community.…”

Section: Section 5: Public and Political Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analysis was based on keyword searches of terms related to health and climate change in 20 775 annual reports in the database of the UN Global Compact, and engagement in health and climate change was identified by use of natural language processing. Methods, data sources, and further analyses are described in the appendix (pp [219][220][221][222][223][224][225][226][227][228].…”

Section: Indicator 52: Individual Engagement In Health and Climate Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

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Section: Section 5: Public and Political Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Indicator 52: Individual Engagement In Health and Climate Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

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“…In recent years, discourse on climate change has described it as "catastrophic," "rapid," "urgent," "irreversible", and "chaotic" [24]. Such language is characteristic of a new way of narrating the climate crisis that Risbey [17] terms "alarming" [25,26]. However, according to Vu, Liu, and Tran [27], media coverage of climate change (particularly given the media outlets' political and/or ideological agendas) is a controversial topic, and many media outlets are criticized for inadequately covering the climate crisis or for not doing enough to highlight its severity (see University of Kansas [28]).…”

Section: Media Exposure and Climate Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Exposure to Climate Change, Anxiety, and Efficacy Beliefs in a Sample of Italian University Students

Maran

Begotti

2021

IJERPH

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The climate crisis poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of individuals. For many, climate change knowledge is derived from indirect exposure to information transmitted through the media. Such content can elicit a variety of emotional responses, including anger, sadness, despair, fear, and guilt. Worry and anxiety are especially common responses, usually referred to as “climate anxiety”. The main objectives of this study were to analyze how exposure to climate change through the media relates to climate anxiety and individual and collective self-efficacy, and to evaluate the relationship between climate anxiety and efficacy beliefs. A total of 312 Italian university students (aged 18–26 years) participated in the research by filling out an anonymous questionnaire. Participants reported being exposed several times per week to information about climate change, especially from social media, newspapers, and television programs. Moreover, the results showed that the attention paid to information about climate change was not only positively related to climate anxiety, but also to individual and collective self-efficacy. Most notably, participants’ efficacy beliefs were found to be positively related to climate anxiety. This somewhat controversial finding stresses that, in the context of pro-environmental behavior changes, a moderate level of anxiety could engender feelings of virtue, encouraging people to rethink actions with negative ecological impacts.

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“…Under-staffed and over-worked, the journalistic profession is expected to deliver 24/7 updates, be commercially viable and produce quality content while staying within framing conventions and argumentative positionings set by editorial standpoints and market forces. Taken together, this has been identified as an equation that does not add up (Molek-Kozakowska, 2018). These organizational limitations hold true in most Western countries today, including Sweden, as previously separate media systems are increasingly being combined into a liberal, commercial, conformist one (Hallin & Mancini, 2004).…”

Section: Journalismagency and Constraintsmentioning

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Young vs old? Truancy or new radical politics? Journalistic discourses about social protests in relation to the climate crisis

Jacobsson

2020

Critical Discourse Studies

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The aim of this critical discourse analysis is to examine how the agenda and actions of the global protest movement 'Youth for Climate' are understood and constructed in Swedish mainstream press and to highlight how the journalistic recontextualization contributes to empowering and disempowering the critical voices and their demands. The article problematizes the journalistic ideal of objectivity in the case of the climate crisis and adds to discussions about the role of media and journalism in the political dynamics surrounding various responses and solutions to the crisis. It suggests that journalism's objectivity claim hampers the journalistic coveragewhat stories can be told and how. This suggestion is based on findings that show how journalism neutralizes conflict and social critique by emptying it of its political content and incorporating it into consensus discourses as well as by focusing on a moral pseudo-struggle that allows journalism to cover conflict without acknowledging real political controversies. It is argued here that journalism contributes to disempowering the climate protests by means of evasive, transformative and emptying discursive strategies.

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Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid

Cited by 23 publications

References 17 publications

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

Media Exposure to Climate Change, Anxiety, and Efficacy Beliefs in a Sample of Italian University Students

Young vs old? Truancy or new radical politics? Journalistic discourses about social protests in relation to the climate crisis

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