Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

Broadbent, Jeffrey; Sonnett, John; Botetzagias, Iosef; Carson, Marcus; Carvalho, Anabela; Chien, Yu-Ju; Edling, Christopher; Fisher, Dana; Giouzepas, Georgios; Haluza-DeLay, Randolph; Hasegawa, Koichi; Hirschi, Christian; Horta, Ana; Ikeda, Kazuhiro; Jin, Jun; Ku, Dowan; Lahsen, Myanna; Lee, Ho-Ching; Lin, Tze-Luen Alan; Malang, Thomas; Ollmann, Jana; Payne, Diane; Pellissery, Sony; Price, Stephan; Pulver, Simone; Sainz, Jaime; Satoh, Keiichi; Saunders, Clare; Schmidt, Luisa; Stoddart, Mark C. J.; Swarnakar, Pradip; Tatsumi, Tomoyuki; Tindall, David; Vaughter, Philip; Wagner, Paul; Yun, Sun-Jin; Zhengyi, Sun

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.

Citation

Broadbent, J., Sonnett, J., Botetzagias, I., Carson, M., Carvalho, A., Chien, Y., …Zhengyi, S. (2016). Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023116670660

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 25, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Oct 25, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Deposit Date: Oct 7, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 28, 2023
• Journal: Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
• Print ISSN: 2378-0231
• Electronic ISSN: 2378-0231
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023116670660
• Keywords: climate change, comparative, cosmopolitan, frame conflicts, global warming
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2924022