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Risk, uncertainty and opportunity in climate change coverage: Australia compared
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McGaurr, LC and Lester, EA and Painter, J, Risk, uncertainty and opportunity in climate change coverage: Australia compared, Australian Journalism Review, 35, (2) pp. 21-34. ISSN 0810-2686 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Mediation of climate change is bedevilled by the complexity of communicating
scientific uncertainty. This paper revisits the results of a recent
comparative study using frame analysis to investigate newspaper
coverage across six countries of scientific reports from the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change and articles about changes in Arctic
sea ice. Our paper looks more closely at what these comparative data
tell us is distinctive about the mediation of climate science in Australia,
namely that the Australian newspapers analysed were most likely to
include sceptical voices, least likely to include an opportunity frame
and less likely than most to temper uncertainty frames with references
to increasing certainty. We discuss these findings in the context of political
argument in Australia about the merits or otherwise of trading or
taxing greenhouse gas emissions.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Media, news, climate change. risk coverage, Australia |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Communication and media studies |
Research Field: | Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | The media |
UTAS Author: | McGaurr, LC (Dr Lynette McGaurr) |
UTAS Author: | Lester, EA (Professor Libby Lester) |
ID Code: | 88210 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2014-01-20 |
Last Modified: | 2018-02-17 |
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