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

doi:10.1177/2378023116670660

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

Authors

Jeffrey Broadbent

John Sonnett

Iosef Botetzagias

Marcus Carson

Anabela Carvalho

Yu-Ju Chien

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

Tze-Luen Alan Lin

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

Dr Paul Wagner P.Wagner@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer

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.

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
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