Source strategies and the communication of environmental affairs

Anderson, Alison

doi:10.1177/016344391013004003

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“…Her speech manifested a sharp turning point in her government's approach towards environmental policy and drew the public's attention to the issue of climate change (Anderson 1991). However, while climate change policy started to emerge as a new policy area in the 1990s, it was not a major driver of the SO in the early 1990s, although the first British SO, EESoP1, was partly introduced as a result of national climate policy: together with the E-factor (an energy efficiency price premium for gas), EESoP 1 was supposed to raise money for the Energy Saving Trust (EST) that was established by the government, British Gas, and public electricity supply companies in 1992 to reduce home energy use and the associated carbon emissions.…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy savings obligations in the UK—A history of change

Rosenow

2012

Energy Policy

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This paper looks at Energy Savings Obligations in the UK. More specifically, it discusses how the policy instrument changed over time and what the drivers of that change were. The UK was the first country in Europe that introduced Energy Savings Obligations on suppliers to save energy at the customer end in 1994. Since then this policy changed rapidly and is now the principal instrument to deliver energy savings in the housing stock. This paper aims to answer three questions: First, how did the policy instrument change over time? Second, what were the key drivers of that change? Third, how did those pressures filter through the policy process and affect the energy savings obligations?

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Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy savings obligations in the UK—A history of change

Rosenow

2012

Energy Policy

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“…Within this theoretical framework, one aspect of a movement's environment that creates an opportunity for its success is divisions among elites that erode consensus around the government's position (McAdam 1996). Applying this to movement influence on media framing, the media may be more likely to cover a movement's actions and incorporate its perspective when elite actors outside the movement share at least some of its objection to government policy (Anderson 1991;Bennett 1990;Hallin 1984;Miller 1993;Waisbord and Peruzzotti 2009). As Bennett notes, journalists "tend to 'index' the range of voices and viewpoints in both news and editorials according to the range of views expressed in mainstream government debate about a given topic" (1990,106).…”

Section: Theorizing Movement Access To the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access: Salvadoran Newspaper Coverage of the Health Care Struggle

Kowalchuk¹

2010

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Focusing on the social movement that resisted the privatization of health care in El Salvador in 2002–3, this article asks how the movement's multisectoral composition influenced news coverage of the health care policy debate. Specifically, it examines whether the diversity of perspectives in the alliance was reflected in the media's source selection and framing of the policy issues. A content analysis of Salvadoran newspapers' coverage shows that the media relied mainly on just two movement actors to represent the antiprivatization position: the striking doctors and the leftist opposition party. It also reveals that a period of elite dissensus on the policy issues opened a temporary opportunity to insert movement messages in the coverage. The study indicates that a multisectoral alliance does not enhance movement influence through the news media, though broad alliances confer strategic advantages for the movement's broader communication work.

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“…Together these generally help to produce a situation in which elite voices come to predominate in news discourse and effectively become primary definers of reality (Hall et al 1978). A contrasting source-centric, approach, on the other hand, has sought better to acknowledge the vast array of news sources that struggle and compete for news access and how they do so within unequal source fields and with varying resources, social prestige and communication strategies (Anderson 1991;Deacon 2003;Miller & Williams 1993;Schlesinger 1990). A third, more culturalist approach to news access recognises the importance of the news text as itself exerting determining influence on news access and representation whether in terms of story and narrative (Jacobs 1996), myth (Bird and Dardenne 1988) or ritual (Ettema 1990).…”

Section: Theorising News Accessmentioning

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“Out of the Mouths of Babes and Experts”: children's news and what it can teach us about news access and professional mediation

Matthews

2005

Journalism Studies

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Abstract:Based on a participant observation study of the British children's news programme Newsround, this article explores how professional ideas of form and target audience condition and shape both the range of accessed news voices as well as the opportunities that these are granted on the news stage to elaborate their views, experiences and feelings. This case study approach not only helps to map a hitherto unexplored form of television journalism but also throws into sharp relief professional news practices that inform the production of television news more generally. As such, it addresses an important silence in the conventional theorisation of news access and invites a more complex and culturally differentiated understanding of, and future approach to, news production and processes of professional mediation.

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Source strategies and the communication of environmental affairs

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Energy savings obligations in the UK—A history of change

Energy savings obligations in the UK—A history of change

Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access: Salvadoran Newspaper Coverage of the Health Care Struggle

“Out of the Mouths of Babes and Experts”: children's news and what it can teach us about news access and professional mediation

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