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- The Hegemony of Global Politics: News Coverage of Climate Change in a Small CountryPublication . Horta, Ana; Carvalho, Anabela; Schmidt, LuísaResearching media coverage of climate change may shed light on the different configurations of global and domestic factors affecting journalism and politics. This article analyzes climate change coverage in Portugal from 2007 to 2014 in comparison with 14 other countries. It shows that the Portuguese press tends to reproduce the global political agenda on climate change, mainly focusing on international events associated with global political decision-making processes, instead of providing a domesticated coverage, as observed in other countries. National and local levels of action are thus obscured. The interplay between global and domestic factors—including characteristics of Portugal’s press and politics, such as national political leaders’ lack of mobilization and communication on climate change, media’s deference to powerful sources, and reliance on international news feeds—creates the conditions for global politics to play an hegemonic role in media representations, which is likely to influence public engagement with climate change.
- Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media DiscoursePublication . Broadbent, J.; Sonnett, J.; Botetzagias, I.; Carson, M.; Carvalho, A.; Chien, Y.-J.; Edling, C.; Fisher, D.; Giouzepas, G.; Haluza-DeLay, R.; Hasegawa, K.; Hirschi, C.; Horta, Ana; Ikeda, K.; Jin, J.; Ku, D.; Lahsen, M.; Lee, H.-C.; Lin, T.-L. A.; Malang, T.; Ollmann, J.; Payne, D.; Pellissery, S.; Price, S.; Pulver, S.; Sainz, J.; Satoh, K.; Saunders, C.; Schmidt, Luísa; Stoddart, M. C. J.; Swarnakar, P.; Tatsumi, T.; Tindall, D.; Vaughter, P.; Wagner, P.; Yun, S.-J.; Zhengyi, S.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