Constructing an illusion of scientific uncertainty? Framing climate change in German and British print media

AbstractThis article uses quantitative content analysis data from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013 to examine the salience and construction of scientific uncertainty about climate change in German and British press coverage using quantitative content analysis data from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013. The results show that uncertainty about climate change − against overwhelming consensus among climate scientists − is prominent in the press coverage of both countries. The findings indicate that it is important to distinguish whether scientific uncertainty can be found at the level of single articles, or at the level of the coverage as a whole. The study also reveals that uncertainty is constructed differently in German and British press coverage in terms of the media’s framing of climate science and the types of actors who are involved in the construction of scientific uncertainty.

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Journalistic transgressions in the representation of Jeremy Corbyn: From watchdog to attackdog

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884917734055 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 191-208 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Bart Cammaerts ◽

Brooks DeCillia ◽

João Carlos Magalhães

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Labour Party ◽

Press Coverage ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

British Press ◽

Jeremy Corbyn

This research critically assesses the press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership bid and subsequent first months as the leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party. A content analysis ( n = 812) found that the British press offered a distorted and overly antagonistic view of the long-serving MP. Corbyn is often denied a voice and news organisations tended to prize anti-Corbyn sources over favourable ones. Much of the coverage is decidedly scornful and ridicules the leader of the opposition. This analysis also tests a set of normative conceptions of the media in a democracy. In view of this, our research contends that the British press acted more as an attackdog than a watchdog when it comes to the reporting of Corbyn. We conclude that the transgression from traditional monitorial practices to snarling attacks is unhealthy for democracy, and it furthermore raises serious ethical questions for UK journalism and its role in society.

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The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily newspapers: content analysis of press coverage from 2000 to 2010

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.13010202 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (01) ◽

pp. A02 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Emilia Lopera ◽

Carolina Moreno

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Climate Science ◽

Press Coverage ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

Media Attention ◽

Uncertain Science ◽

Selection Of

This paper explores media coverage of climate science through a selection of Spanish newspapers (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Expansión and Levante). We selected a stratified random sample of 363 items to be studied for eleven years (2000-2010). Content analysis allowed us to find out media attention paid to climate science, prevalence of informative tables, evaluation and characterization of news, as well as the presence of questioning or rejection of climate change. According to main results, press coverage of climate science in Spain was mainly focused on the consequences rather than on the causes or natural sources, and media attention paid to it was limited. Overlapping with social and macroeconomic problems in the country also contributed to communication of climate science as a controversial and uncertain science through informative framings.

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Construction of Populism

Nordicom Review ◽

10.1515/nor-2016-0029 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (s1) ◽

pp. 147-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Juha Herkman

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Frame Analysis ◽

Quantitative Content Analysis ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

Political Cultures ◽

British Press

AbstractThe terminology of populism is often taken for granted, even though the very meaning of populism is quite unclear. The article approaches populism by exploring the meanings given to the term in the Nordic press during the first parliamentary elections of the 2010s in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. A combination of the quantitative content analysis and the qualitative frame analysis of the leading quality and popular papers is favoured. In the study of the use of populism in the British press the conclusion was that the term was used more or less explicitly in a pejorative way, although uses of the term varied and had no consistent logic. In the Nordic press recurring frames were found, but the meanings given to populism were only fully understood in their political and cultural contexts. The different life phases of the domestic populist parties as well as differences in Nordic political cultures especially explain the variation in the usage of the term.

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The Image of Journalism and the Press on the Pages of Mir Newspaper (1919–1944): Results of a Quantitative Content Analysis

21st Century Media and Communications ◽

10.54664/xcwp3376 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dilyana Toncheva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Quantitative Content Analysis ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

The Press ◽

Shed Light

The article presents the main results of a quantitative content analysis of Mir newspaper for the period 1919‒1944. A total of 151 articles were analyzed. The study aims to shed light on how the periodical, defined as the Bulgarian Times (a quality bourgeois newspaper), presents five main thematic areas in order to provide a clearer picture of the Bulgarian press and journalistic culture during the period under review.

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Different actors, different factors? A comparison of the news factor orientation between newspaper journalists and civil-society actors

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2016-0023 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Hannah Schmid-Petri ◽

Thomas Häussler ◽

Silke Adam

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Civil Society ◽

Mass Media ◽

Research Question ◽

Quantitative Content Analysis ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

Selection Processes ◽

General Relevance

AbstractNews factors can be conceptualized as general relevance indicators guiding the attention of all humans. However, that doesn’t mean that they are the only factors influencing selection processes or that all news factors have the same importance across different actor types. Within the concept of news factors it is still unclear to what degree those news factors also apply to the communication outside of traditional mass media. We therefore ask whether and how actors with varying degrees of professionalization employ news factors in their communication differently. To answer our research question, we conducted a quantitative content analysis and compared the coverage in traditional newspapers with the communication of civil society actors with varying degrees of professionalization. We analyzed the relevance of news factors within the presentation of a specific issue, namely climate change in Germany. Our results show that news factors are – at least partly – also applied by non-journalist actors. The mass media and the more professionalized civil society actors do not apply news factors more strongly to their communication than do non-professionalized civil society actors. Instead, we find that different actors focus on different news factors.

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Climate Change in the Mainstream Pakistani Press: Coverage and Framing Trends

Global Political Review - Fall 2018 ◽

10.31703/gpr.2020(v-i).22 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (I) ◽

pp. 192-204

Author(s):

Muhammad Naeem Javed ◽

Abdul Basit ◽

Tanveer Hussain

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Food Security ◽

Water Scarcity ◽

Systemic Effects ◽

Press Coverage ◽

The Press ◽

The World ◽

Agriculture And Food

Climate change is a global phenomenon; its outcome affects societies around the world. Due to the systemic effects of climate change, Pakistan frequently suffers from natural disasters. The present study explored the press coverage and framing trends about three climate issues (1) Climate change and global warming (2) climate change and water scarcity (3) agriculture and food security. The study was based on content analysis. In this research, editorials of four newspapers; The Nation, The News, Nawa-i-Waqt and Jang were examined during 2011 to 2018. It was census study and all editorials were examined during the period of 8 years. The results showed that all four newspapers highly covered issues of water scarcity in Pakistan and however, gave less coverage to the issue of agriculture and food security. Thus, overall editorial coverages increase with every passing year and mainstream Pakistani press framing trends were remain very positive and suggestive.

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Press coverage of the German reunification issue in a long-term perspective, 1990–2014

Central European Journal of Communication ◽

10.19195/1899-5101.12.1(22).1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 2-24

Author(s):

Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann ◽

Jürgen Maier ◽

Michaela Maier

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

West Germany ◽

Press Coverage ◽

German Reunification ◽

East And West Germany ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

The Press ◽

German Newspapers ◽

Over Time

This paper analyses the long-term coverage 1990–2014 of German reunification by six German newspapers. Our quantitative content analysis shows how often the press covers the event, what the content of the coverage is, and how journalists evaluate the reunification process. As we have analysed newspapers of different locations, ranges, types, and editorial lines, we can see whether newspapers cover German reunification differently. Our analysis shows that the amount of coverage of reunification quickly decreases, and only a few articles are published prominently. The press reports on more differences between East and West Germany than similarities; about one third of the articles mentions problems and conflicts, although they become less important over time. All in all, positive evaluations of German reunification outweigh negative judgments and increase over time. We see evidence that the placement, content, and tone of coverage highly depends on the type, editorial line, range, and location of the newspapers.

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