Climate Change and Digital Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (0) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Eunjoo Choi ◽  
Eunjung Lee ◽  
Sungeu Chae ◽  
Jiwon Shim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media

Speaking of the weather

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Formats

Climate change raises the stakes of human communication to the existential level of the species and the planet. This article presents an empirical study of how users make sense of climate change as they traverse the contemporary digital media environment. Departing from a baseline survey and drawing on the tradition of reception analysis, focus groups of different ages and with various political and religious affiliations identified distinctive themes, narratives, and arguments regarding the natural environment as represented and received across different media. Climate change appears out of scale – incommensurable not only with established media formats and genres but also with common frames of human cognition and communication. In conclusion, the article addresses climate change from the perspective of human rights and social justice, under the recent heading of climate justice.

scholarly journals Percepción del cambio climático en alumnado de 4º del Grado en Educación Primaria (Universidad de Valencia, España) a partir de la información de los medios de comunicación

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Francisco Morote ◽  
Benito Campo ◽  
Juan Carlos Colomer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Digital Tv ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Educación Primaria ◽  
Atmospheric Phenomena ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

El cambio climático, sus causas y efectos suponen uno de los principales desafíos del siglo XXI. La enseñanza sobre este fenómeno constituye un reto para la formación de los/as futuros/as maestros/as de Primaria debido a la responsabilidad docente sobre la comprensión y posible adaptación a este fenómeno global. Los objetivos de este trabajo son: 1) Explorar y conocer los principales medios desde donde los/as futuros/as maestros/as de Primaria reciben información sobre el cambio climático; y 2) Reconocer las causas y consecuencias que se aluden en estos medios (según la percepción de los/as estudiantes) para identificar la concepción que se tiene sobre este fenómeno. A modo de estudio de caso se suministró un cuestionario al alumnado de último curso del Grado de Maestro en Educación Primaria (Universidad de Valencia, España). Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que la principal información sobre el cambio climático que adquieren es desde los medios de comunicación digital (TV, Internet y Redes Sociales). Respecto a esa misma información, cabe destacar de manera general que las causas que se citan son la contaminación, y sobre las consecuencias, los fenómenos atmosféricos extremos (inundaciones, sequías), lo que deriva en una comprensión deficiente del fenómeno. Climate change, its causes and effects represent one of the main challenges of the 21st century. Teaching about this phenomenon constitutes a challenge for the instruction of future Primary teachers due to the responsibility for understanding and possible adaptation to this global phenomenon. The objectives of this research are: 1) To explore and know the main means from which future Primary teachers receive information about climate change; and 2) Recognize the causes and consequences mentioned in these media (according to the students' perception). As a case study, a questionnaire was provided to the students of the last year of the Degree in Primary Education (University of Valencia, Spain). The results show that the main information about climate change that they acquire is from the digital media (TV, Internet and Social Networks). Regarding the same information, it should be noted that in general the causes cited are the pollution, and the consequences, extreme atmospheric phenomena (floods, droughts), resulting in a poor understanding of the climate change.

Methods for Assessing Visual Images and Depictions of Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 1960S

Visual representation has been important in communicating and constructing the environment as a focus for public and political concern since the rise of environmentalism in the 1960s. As communications media have themselves become increasingly visual with the rise of digital media, so too has visual communication become key to public debate about environmental issues, no more so than in public debate and the politics of climate change. This chapter surveys the methods, approaches, and frameworks deployed in emerging research on public-mediated visual communication about climate change. Research on the visual mediation of climate change is itself part of the emerging field of visual environmental communication research, defined as research concerned with theorizing and empirically examining how visual imagery contributes to the increasingly multimodal public communication of the environment. Focused on a sociological understanding of the contribution that visuals make to the social, political, and cultural construction of “the environment,” visual environmental communication research analytically requires a multimodal approach, which situates analysis of the semiotic, discursive, rhetorical, and narrative characteristics of visuals in relation to the communicative, cultural, and historical contexts and in relation to the three main sites—production, content, and audiences/consumption—of communication in the public sphere.

scholarly journals Tilting for Windmills: Climate Change, Websites, and Ecocritical Pedagogy

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Key words: digital media, multimedia technology, climate change, cyber ecocriticism, pedagogy Ecocriticism in general has concentrated on literary texts and has relegated other types of texts, particularly digital and interactive texts which are those which arguably have the greatest influence and readership in the 21st century. Thus, the need for ecocritical study of digital media, which would combine the investigation of the rhetorical and narrative features both of websites as a totality and of their specific content, as well as reception and reader response analyses. Using the experience of a graduate course, the multiple benefits of this approach illustrates how the ecocritique of digital media can achieve numerous objectives in a variety of pedagogical situations and provide a way to integrate environmental issues into skill dominant courses.    Palabras clave: medios audiovisuales y digitales, tecnología multimedia, cambio climático, ecocritica cibernética, pedagogía  La ecocrítica en general se ha centrado en textos literarios y ha relegado otros tipos de textos, en particular textos digitales e interactivos que podría decirse que son los de mayor influencia y mayor número de lectores del siglo XXI.  Por ello es necesario el estudio ecocrítico de los medios de comunicación digitales, que combinaría la investigación de las características retóricas y narrativas de tanto las páginas web en su totalidad como de su contenido específico, así como de los análisis de la recepción y de la respuesta del lector. Usando la experiencia de un curso de postgrado, los múltiples beneficios de este enfoque ilustran cómo la ecocrítica de los medios de comunicación digitales pueden conseguir numerosos objetivos en una variedad de situaciones pedagógicas y proporcionar una manera de integrar los temas medioambientales en cursos predominantemente centrados en la adquisición de destrezas.

scholarly journals Exploring the digital media ecology: insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. A02
Author(s):  
Emma Weitkamp ◽  
Elena Milani ◽  
Andy Ridgway ◽  
Clare Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Healthy Diets ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Media

This study explores the types of actors visible in the digital science communication landscape in the Netherlands, Serbia and the U.K. Using the Koru model of science communication as a basis, we consider how science communicators craft their messages and which channels they are using to reach audiences. The study took as case studies the topics of climate change and healthy diets to enable comparison across countries, topics and platforms. These findings are compared with the results from a survey of over 200 science communication practitioners based in these countries. We find that although traditional media are challenged by the variety of different new entrants into the digital landscape, our results suggest that the media and journalists remain highly visible. In addition, our survey results suggest that many science communicators may struggle to gain traction in the crowded digital ecology, and in particular, that relatively few scientists and research institutions and universities are achieving a high profile in the public digital media ecology of science communication.

scholarly journals ‘Make America Secure’: Media, militarism, and climate change in the Marianas Archipelago

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia C. Frain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mariana Islands ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
Northern Mariana Islands ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The People ◽  
The Us ◽  
Department Of The Navy ◽  
National Environmental

The 2018 Make America Secure Appropriations Act is the latest United States federal policy which prioritises funds for defence projects at the expense of climate change adaption planning in the Marianas Archipelago. Since 2006, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has released six Environmental Impact Statement documents which outline construction of bombing ranges on the islands of Guam, Pågan, and Tinian. Expanding militarisation of the archipelago is supported by US-owned media through the narrative of pro-American ideologies which frames any resistance as unpatriotic. However, both non-voting US Congress representatives for Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) express concerns with how federal funds are prioritised for military projects instead of climate change adaption. Further, Indigenous Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples of the Marianas continue to resist by creating content on alternative digital media platforms and through lawsuits supported by the National Environmental Protection Act against the DoD and Department of the Navy. This article illustrates how remaining as insular areas of the US directly dictates the lack of sovereignty the people of the Marianas have in planning for climate change.

Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
David Rousell ◽  
Thilinika Wijesinghe ◽  
Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles ◽  
Maia Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
To Come

scholarly journals Scare-quoting climate: The rapid rise of climate denial in the Swedish far-right media ecosystem

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Kjell Vowles ◽  
Martin Hultman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Media Ecosystem

Abstract The final years of the 2010s marked an upturn in coverage on climate change. In Sweden, legacy media wrote more on the issue than ever before, especially in connection to the drought and wildfires in the summer of 2018 and the Fridays for Future movement started by Greta Thunberg. Reporting on climate change also reached unprecedented levels in the growingly influential far-right media ecosystem; from being a topic discussed hardly at all, it became a prominent issue. In this study, we use a toolkit from critical discourse analysis (CDA) to research how three Swedish far-right digital media sites reported on climate during the years 2018–2019. We show how the use of conspiracy theories, anti-establishment rhetoric, and nationalistic arguments created an antagonistic reaction to increased demands for action on climate change. By putting climate in ironic quotation marks, a discourse was created where it was taken for granted that climate change was a hoax.

scholarly journals Ideological biases in social sharing of online information about climate change

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250656
Author(s):  
Tristan J. B. Cann ◽  
Iain S. Weaver ◽  
Hywel T. P. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Connected Components ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Web

Exposure to media content is an important component of opinion formation around climate change. Online social media such as Twitter, the focus of this study, provide an avenue to study public engagement and digital media dissemination related to climate change. Sharing a link to an online article is an indicator of media engagement. Aggregated link-sharing forms a network structure which maps collective media engagement by the user population. Here we construct bipartite networks linking Twitter users to the web pages they shared, using a dataset of approximately 5.3 million English-language tweets by almost 2 million users during an eventful seven-week period centred on the announcement of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Community detection indicates that the observed information-sharing network can be partitioned into two weakly connected components, representing subsets of articles shared by a group of users. We characterise these partitions through analysis of web domains and text content from shared articles, finding them to be broadly described as a left-wing/environmentalist group and a right-wing/climate sceptic group. Correlation analysis shows a striking positive association between left/right political ideology and environmentalist/sceptic climate ideology respectively. Looking at information-sharing over time, there is considerable turnover in the engaged user population and the articles that are shared, but the web domain sources and polarised network structure are relatively persistent. This study provides evidence that online sharing of news media content related to climate change is both polarised and politicised, with implications for opinion dynamics and public debate around this important societal challenge.

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