Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Journal
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Journal Volume
2
ISSN
2378-0231
2378-0231
Date Issued
2016-10
Author(s)
Jeffrey Broadbent
John Sonnett
Iosef Botetzagias
Marcus Carson
Anabela Carvalho
Christopher Edling
Dana Fisher
Georgios Giouzepas
Randolph Haluza-DeLay
Koichi Hasegawa
Christian Hirschi
Ana Horta
Kazuhiro Ikeda
Jun Jin
Dowan Ku
Myanna Lahsen
Ho-Ching Lee
Thomas Malang
Jana Ollmann
Diane Payne
Sony Pellissery
Stephan Price
Simone Pulver
Jaime Sainz
Keiichi Satoh
Clare Saunders
Luisa Schmidt
Mark C. J. Stoddart
Pradip Swarnakar
Tomoyuki Tatsumi
David Tindall
Philip Vaughter
Paul Wagner
Sun-Jin Yun
Sun Zhengyi
Abstract
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for mitigation policy. These dimensions yield four clusters of cases producing a fractured global field. Positive values on the dimensions show modest association with emissions reductions. Data-mining media research is needed to determine trends in this global field.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Type
journal article